Family

The Open Adoption Experience – A Complete Gu...

Two leading experts provide an authoritative and reassuring guide to the issues and concerns of adoptive and birth families through all stages of the open adoption...

We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Fami...

In a kid-friendly, accessible way, this book explores the ways that people can choose to come together to make a family. It’s about sharing your home and sharing your heart to make a family that belongs together. ...

Adoption Reunion: Ecstasy or Agony?...

A reunion between family members who have been separated by an adoption can be a very emotional event. For most people there is great joy and excitement, but for some there can be anger and disappointment. The ecstasy of adoption reunions probably needs no explanation and is often enthusiastically anticipated. However, agony can also be experienced and this is often unexpected and alarming. Many books have been produced...

Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Chr...

A stirring call to Christian families and churches to be a people who care for orphans, not just in word, but in deed. The gospel of Jesus Christ-the good news that through Jesus we have been adopted as sons and daughters into God’s family-means that Christians ought to be at the forefront of the adoption of orphans in North America and around the world. Russell D. Moore does not shy away from this call in Adopted...

Star of the Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and B...

It’s CassidyLi’s turn to be Star of the Week at school! So she’s making brownies and collecting photos for her poster. She has pictures of all the important people in her lifewith one big exception. CassidyLi, adopted from China when she was a baby, doesn’t have a photo of her birthparents. But with a little help from her family, she comes up with the perfect way to include them! Using their own...

Adoption Is for Always (Albert Whitman Concept Pap...

One of the best titles available about adoption for young ...

The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guid...

Is it OK to sleep with your newborn baby? How old is too old for breastfeeding? These questions and more are answered in this latest addition to the Sears Parenting Library. Attachment Parenting encourages early, strong, and sustained attention to the new baby’s needs and this book outlines the steps that will create the most lasting bonds between parents and their children. Practical and inspirational, this book,...

Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children Shapes Our ...

Explore the spiritual dynamics of parenting, and why caring for children is such an effective discipline in shaping our souls and forming the character of Christ within...

Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes an...

A practical guide to parenting that starts with the differences that the Gospel makes in the lives of those doing the parenting – most Christian books ignore this...

The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child...

A lifesaving handbook for parents of children who are occasionally, or too often, out of control Includes a bound-in twenty-minute DVD featuring Dr. Kazdin and his staff illustrating key concepts of the Kazdin Method Most child-behavior books are filled with advice that sounds reasonable, fits with what parents already believe about child-rearing, and isas Dr. Kazdin proves guaranteed to fail. The Kazdin Method for Parenting...