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The Hardest Part of My Job is Being Nice to Stupid People: Funny Office Coworker Notebook Gag Gifts for Women and Men: Blank Lined Journal for Notes
Looking For A Funny Gift?This handy 6″ by 9″ lined journal will be the perfect office gift that will give everyone a big laugh.
Simple and elegant designs. 100 pages (50 sheets front/back), high-quality matte cover, and (6 x 9) inches in size.Read more
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A F*cking 2024 Wall Calendar: Get Your Sh*t Together This Year – Includes Stickers! (Calendars & Gifts to Swear By)
Time to get your sh*t together. It’s a f*cking 2024 calendar!
Packed with hilarious profanity and lots of swearing stickers, this sarcastic and humorous adult wall calendar says it like it is while keeping you organized. Funny, practical, and relatable, this swearing calendar will help you let it out, cut the crap, and (maybe) swearing will help! The perfect hanging wall calendar for your kitchen or home office, and an incredible white elephant gift or gag gift for adults!
Features:
12-month wall calendar (January-December 2024) with vibrant, full-color designs
Environmentally responsible, FSC certified and smudge-free paper
12″ x 12″ trim size with sturdy hole for easy hanging
Over 200 hilarious and practical stickers for adults
Ample writing space each day to stay organized and jot down important reminders, tasks, and appointments
Plus funny, motivational reminders and plenty of space to write your own to-do lists each month
Holidays and observances
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Things I’ll Forget If I Don’t Write Them Down Immediately: Secret Santa Gifts for Men, Women, Coworkers, Bosses under 10 | Funny Gag Gifts for … Journal with 100 Pages…
Are you looking for a funny gift for your coworker?
Look no further. This brilliant office gag gift will give everyone a big laugh and is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Perfect gift for Secret Santa, Christmas, or any special occasion (that involves your boss or coworker).
Features:
✓ 100 pages of blank lined premium cream paper pages
✓ 6” x 9” paperback notebook, soft matte cover
✓ Perfect size for everyday use by yourself
✓ Great gift for Secret Santa, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, birthday, or any other special occasionsDesigned by Postmodern Office Humor Press and shipped fast by Amazon.
Click “add to cart” to get this gift and bring some fun to the office today!
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Things I Want To Say At Work But Cant Coloring Book: Adult Coloring Book With Funny Swear Words For Stress Relief – Sarcastic Gag Gift For Friends , Coworkers And Family .
This Adult Coloring Book Contains Office Work-Related Swearing Funny Words and Relaxing Designs for
men, women, co-workers, bosses, office squad for Laughing, Relaxing & Passing Time.This Coloring book Contains +45 hilarious funny phrases
Each sentence is designed around Paisley Patterns, Flowers & etc …
Single-sided prints for your coloring convenience
Examples of sentences :
I have an eye problem. I couldn’t see myself working today
I don’t always wake up at 6 am but when I do its the weekend
If stupid could fly you would be a jet
Who left the bag of idiots open?…THIS IS ALL THAT YOU NEED TO RELAX , LAUGH , AND TO PASS TIME
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Funny Office Gifts: 6×9” (A5) Notebook for women working from home or in the office featuring a typical fun quote or saying on the cover: “Notes of … gift for a co-worker,…
Looking for a fun gift? This useful 6×9” (A5) college ruled lined notebook for recording meeting notes, or just putting down your thoughts, ideas, plans and doodles makes a perfect gift for friends, colleagues and co-workers. Click on author or series link to see other designs available.
- 120 page (60 x sheets) Paperback Lined Notebook Journal
- Funny Statement Quote on Front Cover (other designs available)
- Double Index Page to Keep Track of Notebook Entries
- Perfect Bound Soft Matt Finish Cover
- Blank College Ruled Lined Notebook or Journal Page
A fun, humorous and useful addition to any home or office desk!
This funny notebook cover design features the statement “Notes of all the stupid things I see and hear at work”
We have a range of other funny and whimsical cover designs in different notebook sizes available in our ‘Make a Statement’ series which make great gifts for men, women, friends, colleagues, co-workers or maybe just for yourself – check them all out by clicking on the series link or author link under the main title heading.
The interior of the notebook features a double Index page to keep track of all notes, with the rest of the 120 pages made up of blank double-sided medium college ruled / lined pages. Use as a diary, or for note-taking, journaling, listing, brainstorming, organizing or just writing.
An ideal funny gift for co-workers, students, girlfriends, boyfriends, teachers, tutors, professors and lecturers. Perfect for men, and women on any occasion, such as Christmas, Secret Santa Gifts, Thanksgiving, Birthdays, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Graduations, Teacher Appreciation, Valentines Day, etc. Guaranteed to put a smile on the face of the recipient.
This book is part of our ‘Make a Statement’ series, available in other sizes and with other fun cover designs – click the link just below the main title to check them all out!
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The Actor: How to Live an Authentic Life (1) (Mystery School Series)
The first book in the four-part Mystery School Series by bestselling authors Don Miguel Ruiz and Barbara Emrys, The Actor is a guide to mastering the art of happiness, and living more authentically.Don Miguel Ruiz, author of the internationally bestselling The Four Agreements and mythical Mexican shaman, together with his longtime apprentice Barbara Emrys, returns with his most important work of all: a course for students on the spiritual mystery of life, created to provoke an inner revolution.
With The Actor: How to Live an Authentic Life, join the ‘Mystery School’ for your first week of learning and explore the most fascinating story and mystery of all: you! Bring your curiosity and enthusiasm, and prepare to open your mind.
Learn, over five days, how to observe your life from an artist’s point of view, and meet the real face behind the actor’s mask. Your schedule:
- Day 1: The Artist
- Day 2: Language
- Day 3: Acting
- Day 4: The Stage
- Day 5: The Final Curtain
Discover how you are the main character in every story you’ve ever told about yourself, and how to view the human drama as a whole, as well as the role you play in it.
Develop your awareness of human thinking and behaviour as each lesson brings you a step closer to wisdom and awareness, and begin to step away from the ‘roles’ you play and reclaim your authenticity.
Every one of us is a transforming work of art, and underneath all the theatrics, the truth waits to be illuminated. Peep behind the stage curtains, and embrace the show that is life!
Don Miguel Ruiz’s new work, the Mystery School Series, is a four-part course exploring the spiritual mystery of life, with lessons that bring insight on its specific challenges taught through theory, practice, and imaginative exercises. As a student of life, learn to recognize the creative choices that have made your reality what it is now, and the choices that are still available to you. Use your new understanding to make peace with the past; transform your relationship with the present and create a new script for your life.
Continue your transformation with the other three books of the Mystery School Series:- Eros: Misconceptions About the Art of Romance and Sexuality
- The Myth: The Stories We Tell About Ourselves and Our Reality
- Grief: Self-Care While Surviving the Loss of People we Love
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Emerald Guide to Creative Reading and Writing in Autism, An: First Edition
Creativity in autism extends to all areas of life – to the visual arts, to music, to dance – but our backgrounds in English and Applied Drama mean that it is a particular pleasure for us to explore autistic interaction with words. Stereotypes of autism suggest that autistic people are concrete thinkers, people who struggle to move beyond literal interpretations, and that language used by and understood by autistic people lacks flexibility and creativity. We challenge this perspective, instead suggesting that autism may bring new richness and originality to language that can provide creativity and insight. This book shares and discusses two recent projects using the written word to explore autism. The first used the shared reading of literature as a scaffold for discussion of autistic identity. The second involved creative writing by a group of autistic adults. All involved throughout were ‘insider’ members of the autism community, and both projects were completed collectively.Read more
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Writing the Shadow: Turn Your Inner Darkness Into Words
Do you want to connect with readers on a deeper level?
Do you want your books to stand out in a sea of content by being authentic and personal in your writing whatever the genre?
Are you interested in creative self-development?
If yes, Writing the Shadow is for you.
This is a book of my heart and it contains many personal stories – but this book is really about helping you reach readers with your words – and move to the next level in your writing.
Because we all long to write boldly, without filters or fear.
To spin stories that capture the messy beauty of what it means to be human. Tales that lay bare the truth of living – darkness and all.
But something holds us back.
Whispers of “Who do you think you are?” and “You don’t have permission to write that.” Our own self-censorship and the judgment of others keep us from writing freely – and sometimes, from living fully.
But all great art taps into darkness, and your most compelling work emerges when you embrace your full humanity-both light and Shadow.
In Writing the Shadow, I’ll guide you on an intimate journey to explore the darkness and discover the gold lying hidden in its depths. Gold that may be the source of your best creative work in the years ahead.
The Shadow is calling. It’s time to turn your inner darkness into words.
What’s in the book?
Part 1 goes into the various ways you can tap into your Shadow. Since it lies in the unconscious, you cannot approach it directly. You need tools to help reveal it in different ways.
You will find ideas here – ranging from personality assessments and identifying Shadow personas to mining your own writing and exploring your true curiosity – as well as ways to protect yourself so you don’t get lost in the dark.
Part 2 explores how the Shadow manifests in various aspects of our lives. I discuss the creative wound and how it may still be holding you back in your writing life, as well as aspects of traditional and self-publishing, then expand into work and money, family and relationships, religion and culture, the physical body and aging, death and dying.
Part 3 explores ways that you can find the gold in your Shadow, and turn your inner darkness into words through self-acceptance, letting go of self-censorship, deepening character and theme in your work, and opening the doors to new parts of yourself.
While the book is designed to be read in order, you can also skip directly to the sections that resonate the most.
There are Resources and Questions at the end of every chapter that will help you reflect along the way. You can answer them in your own journal or use the Companion Workbook if you prefer to write in a more structured way.
The Shadow is calling. It’s time to turn your inner darkness into words.
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Voice Actor Notes
The perfect notebook for the Voice Actor. Keep notes at a conference, industry event or workshop. Simple design 6X9 lined journal. Makes a great gift or present for the voiceover artist! #voiceactor #VOLife #actorslifeRead more
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Be Useful: Seven tools for life
THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.
The world’s greatest bodybuilder. The world’s highest paid movie star. The leader of the world’s sixth largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke. But this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold’s stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold’s father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father’s adage close to his heart.
Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, BE USEFUL takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold’s toolkit for a meaningful life. Arnold shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike–some of them famous, some told here for the first time ever.
Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he has shared that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you — you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you need.
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Supporting direct contact after adoption
A number of adopted children have direct contact with members of their birth family after adoption. But contact can be difficult to arrange and challenging for all those involved. This important research study outlines the first investigation of the government and council services established to support direct post-adoption contact. The study draws on the experiences of 51 adoptive parents, four long-term foster carers and 39 birth relatives, all of whom were involved in agency supported direct contact. Individual experiences of the challenges and benefits of direct contact are described, different models of contact are explored, and their costs, benefits and suitability described. Finally, the study sets out the implications for social work practice and what agencies can do to improve the contact experience. This study will be of particular interest to social workers and support workers in child and family teams, adoption and post-adoption support teams, legal professionals, child mental health professionals, adoption researchers and students.Read more
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Chosen: Living with adoption
Chosen brings together writing and poetry by over 50 adopted adults born between 1934 and 1984. Some are established writers, others are new and emerging whilst some have never been published before. They capture a broad range of perspectives: adoption within the extended family; late-discovery adopted adults; transracial and transnational adoption; those who have searched for birth family, and those who did not search but were found by a relative. The themes of identity and belonging, roots and searching and acceptance and healing permeate these accounts.Read more
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Adoption Beyond Borders: How International Adoption Benefits Children
Now Available in Paperback, Adoption Beyond Borders endorses international adoption as a viable path to child welfare by exploring key topics including:
� Effects of institutionalization on children’s developing brains, cognitive abilities, and socioemotional functioning
� Challenges of navigating issues of identity when adopting across national, cultural, and racial lines
� Strong emotional bonds that form even without genetic relatedness
� How adoptive families can address the special needs of children who experienced early neglect and deprivation, thereby providing a supportive environment in which to flourish
� Features the author’s first-hand accounts of her own adoption journey as she visited a Kazakhstani orphanage daily for nearly a year, and illustrates the complexities and implications of the research evidenceRead more
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Adoption and Loss: The Hidden Grief 21st Century Edition
Evelyn Robinson, OAM, has written four books about adoption separation and reunion. This is her first book. What becomes of women who are separated from their children by adoption? Why do so many adopted people feel such a strong desire to seek out their families of origin? In what ways are families with adopted children different from other families? This book by Evelyn Robinson provides the answers to these questions and many others.‘Adoption and Loss – The Hidden Grief’ was first published in 2000. A revised edition was published in 2003 and the 21st Century edition was published in 2018.Read more
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Adoption Law: A Practical Guide
The Adoption and Children Act 2002, which sets out the statutory framework, contains 115 sections and 5 schedules. These provisions are supported by secondary legislation, international conventions, rules, guidance, practice notes and case law that has developed since the Act came into force. The paramount consideration in every decision relating to the adoption of a child is the child’s welfare throughout their life. In doing so the decision maker also has to consider and balance the competing rights protected under the European Convention on Human Rights of all parties in the adoption process and also the child’s rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Adoption Law: A Practical Guide seeks to provide a comprehensive guide to the law, practice and procedure for professionals as well as those who are concerned with or involved in the adoption process. It covers each stage of the adoption process, including the difficult issue of contact between the child and their birth parents and the alternative options available by reference to the relevant case law and regulations in relation to domestic adoptions as well as adoptions with a foreign element. Registration of adoption and the sensitive issue of disclosure of information are also considered. The book deals with the statutory obligations and responsibilities imposed on adoption agencies, support services and other professional bodies who are concerned with adoption towards all the parties, including the child who is the subject of the proceedings. It also outlines the rights of those parties to challenge decisions made by the professional bodies involved in the process.Read more
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What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption–The Workbook: Practical Tools, Skills, and Prompts for Affirming Your Adopted Child’s Cultural Identity
A companion to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption, this practical workbook guides readers to better understand transracial adoption and do the work of anti-racist, trauma-informed parenting.A must-read for white parents who have transracially adopted or prospective parents considering transracial adoption, this follow-up to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption offers a wealth of activities, templates, and questions for self-reflection. Melissa Guida-Richards, who learned at the age of 19 that she was adopted from Colombia as an infant, addresses the complexities of transracial adoption with insight, compassion, and the wisdom of lived experience. Through thought-provoking questions and activities, Guida-Richards guides you to:
- Consider the role of infant-mother bonding and understand developmental trauma in adoptees
- Understand the complex history of adoption; recognize illegal and unethical practices, such as trafficking operations and baby factories; and ask the important questions when working with adoption agencies
- Look more deeply at implicit bias, white saviorism, and white fragility
- Locate and utilize adoption-competent mental health care
- Offer culturally aligned education, community, and resources to your child
- Acknowledge the effects of racism and celebrate your child’s race and culture
Throughout the workbook, Guida-Richards guides you to break free from toxic positivity, understand and drop defenses, engage in difficult conversations, and learn to listen to your child’s experience. Whether you are a potential parent considering a transracial adoption, a parent of an adopted child, or a therapist or advocate working with adoptive families, this practical and engaging workbook will help you “do the work” of furthering anti-racist, child-centered, and trauma-informed parenting.
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Welcoming a New Brother or Sister Through Adoption
Adoption is a big step which can change the whole dynamics of the family. It is crucial that parents understand the impact it has when new sibling relationships are forged and an adoptee becomes a part of the family.
Welcoming a New Brother or Sister through Adoption is a comprehensive yet accessible guide that describes the adoption process and the impact of adoption on every member of the family, including the adopted child. It prepares families to have realistic expectations and equips them with knowledge to deal with a host of situations that may arise, addressing difficult questions head-on: ‘Did we make the right choice by adopting?’, ‘How is this affecting our ‘typical’ children?’, ‘Will our adopted son or daughter heal?’ are explored and solutions discussed in detail. All this is accompanied with real life stories and direct quotes from children, which make it a realistic and insightful resource.
This book is vital reading for adoptive families and professionals who work with them including social workers, counselors and psychologists.
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Navigating Foster Care and Adoption: A Comprehensive Guide to Fostering & Adopting Children: From Screening… to Placement… to Overcoming Obstacles and Building Loving Families
The requirements of the child being fostered as well as the life situation of the foster parent can both have a significant impact on the type of foster care that can be provided. Some children remain in foster care for only a few days or weeks at a time, whilst others may remain there for several months or even years at a time. Foster parents have the option of taking care of only one kid at a time, as well as taking care of numerous children at once, including siblings.Adoption may offer children who need a loving home with stability, security, and a feeling of belonging in their new family. Adopted children sometimes come from tough situations, such as households in which they were abused or neglected, and consequently, they may have suffered trauma or struggle with emotional challenges. These children may be given the love and support, as well as the secure and caring home environment that they need in order to recover and grow when they are adopted by loving families.
My desire to write an eBook about fostering and adoption is driven by a desire to share my experience and insights with others who may be considering fostering or adopting. My story can serve as a source of inspiration and guidance for others, providing practical advice and emotional support for those embarking on this challenging journey.
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Coming home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up
Coming Home to Self is a book about becoming aware. It is written for all members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents as well as those who are in relationship with them, including professionals. It explains the influence imprinted upon the nuerological system and, thus, on future functioning. It explains how false beliefs create fear and perpetuate being ruled by the wounded child. It is a book which will help adoptees discover their authentic selves after living without seeing themselves reflected back all their lives.
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The Emotional Experience of Adoption: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Adoption is an extremely complex and emotionally demanding process for all those involved. This book explores the emotional experience of adoption from a psychoanalytic perspective, and demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding and treatment can contribute to thinking about and working with adopted children and their families.
Drawing on psychoanalytic, attachment and child development theory, and detailed in-depth clinical case discussion, The Emotional Experience of Adoption explores issues such as:
- the emotional experience of children placed for adoption, and how this both shapes and is shaped by unconscious processes in the child’s inner world
- how psychoanalytic child psychotherapy can help as a distinctive source of understanding and as a treatment for children who are either in the process of being adopted or already adopted
- how such understanding can inform planning and decision making amongst professionals and carers.
The Emotional Experience of Adoption explains and accounts for the emotional and psychological complexities involved for child, parents and professionals in adoption. It will be of interest and relevance to anyone involved at a personal level in the adoption process or professionals working in the fields of adoption, social work, child mental health, foster care and family support.
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Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Planning, Assessing and Good Practice
Most children who are fostered or adopted have some level of contact with their birth family — whether face-to-face or by letter — yet most of the time the psychological impact of contact on the child isn’t considered.
This book explores what attachment, neuroscience and trauma tell us about how contact affects children, and shows how poorly executed contact can be unhelpful or even harmful to the child. Assessment frameworks are provided which take the child’s developmental needs into account. The authors also outline a model for managing and planning contact to make it more purposeful and increase its potential for therapeutic benefit. The book covers the challenges presented by the internet for managing contact, unique issues for children in kinship care, problems that arise when adoptive parents separate and many other key issues for practice.
Brimming with practical advice and creative solutions, this is an indispensable tool for social workers, contact centre workers, and other professionals involved in contact arrangements or the therapeutic support of fostered and adopted children.
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Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches (Updated and Expanded Edition)
The doctrine of adoption―God’s decision to adopt sinful men and women into his family―stands at the heart of Christianity. In light of this, Christians’ efforts to adopt beautifully illustrate the truth of the gospel. In this popular-level and practical manifesto, Russell Moore encourages Christians to adopt children and to help other Christian families to do the same. He shows that adoption is not just about couples who have struggled to have children. Rather, it’s about an entire culture within evangelicalism―a culture that sees adoption as part of the Great Commission mandate and as a sign of the gospel itself.
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In On It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You To Know About Adoption. A Guide for Relatives and Friends
In On It is the book for the grandparents and best friends, colleagues and neighbors, aunts and uncles, teachers and caregivers of contemporary adoptive families. It offers advice, information and insights into contemporary adoption — especially for readers who are not themselves adoptive parents. In On It explains the decision-making processes that lead parents to adopt, the adoption process itself, and the important roles of loss and grief in adoption. It offers suggestions for appropriate adoption language and talking about adoption; overviews of transracial, open and older child adoption; guidance for readers who will find themselves representing and speaking on behalf of adoptive families; as well as illustrative anecdotes, suggestions from adoptive parents, and lists of “Ways You Can Help.” In On It extends an invitation into adoption–it is a friendly, welcoming and highly useful adoption resource.Read more
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TRAUMA AND ADOPTION
Adopting a child is a highly emotional experience that is characterized by a deep desire by a couple to become parents. It is important to consider that the child they desire to adopt has gone through abandonment trauma. Trauma can have a devastating effect as well as a significant impact on the development, behavior, relationships, and emotional regulation of a person. This book ventures into the world of adoption, through scientific research surrounding trauma, emphasizing the various stages that characterize the life experiences of both the adopted child and the adoptive parents. It can be compared to a trip on a plane. The point of departure is represented by the ideation of the project of adoption by a couple and the stopovers are experienced in the various crucial moments of the journey. Bureaucracy and its emotional impact, the first meeting with the child, the initial adaptations, attachment, ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), integration in the school context, represent some of the topics addressed in this book. Every stopover offers the reader an opportunity to delve into the experiences and testimonies of people who have lived through specific moments, accompanied by a scientific study and understanding. We hope that the arrival/landing will offer rich and varied discoveries and captivating reflections.Read more
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Voices of the Lost Children of Greece: Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption
Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Their stories will strike home the experience of international adoption, whose impact has been lifelong, but has not been properly measured, let alone acknowledged.
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Our Story by Mommy & Daddy: ~ Adoption Gift Baby Journal For New Adoptive Parents (Present for Adopting a Child, Celebrate New Member of The Family)
“Adoption is not the call to have the perfect rosy family. It is the call to give love, mercy, and patience.”
This adoption baby journal notebook is created to capture and record every moment of your beloved adopted children. It is packed with all features from the page to write the family tree, the page to write in the history of a child, space for family photos, behaviour, growing up photo checklist, physical records from the child was born, year in review and many more!
If you are looking for fully featured adoption book for your new baby or if you happen to know any new parents, this adoption books for adoptive parents is the best gift idea as a unique and meaningful present during their first day of having a new adopted baby or toddler.
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Book features:
- Family Tee Layout
- Birthday Layouts
- Baby Milestones
- Our Journey
- Love Letters from Mommy & Daddy
- Forever Family Page
- Photo layouts
- 8.5 x 11 size ~ handy size for daily commute
- 100 pages packed with interesting and fun ready-made layout for you to fill in
- Paperback with Glossy Stunning Cover
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That Picture of You: A dramatic real-life story of adoption and reunion
Few adoption memoirs can be as moving as this! That Picture Of You tells the story of Susan finding herself pregnant at the age of fifteen, and sent two hundred miles away to give birth in secret. When her baby is forcibly taken for adoption after just eight days, Susan grows to womanhood with no idea if her daughter is even. When she goes on tragically to suffer a miscarriage, a hospital counsellor encourages the playwright to set her grief out on the page. Half A Million Women is the result. But when the play is by pure coincidence performed on her long-lost daughter’s twenty-first birthday, no-one could possibly have imagined the real-life drama about to unfold off-stage. The remarkable real-life story made national headlines. That will come as no surprise when you read the dramatic events of the heart-wrenching reunion of mother and daughter. A truly dramatic story capturing spirit of time and place, this deeply moving and warmly funny book is ultimately, above all, joyful.Read more
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Our Adoption Journey: A journal keepsake for adoption families
Chronicle every progressive happening from start to finalization of your adoption journey!You can choose to use 120 pages as you see fit:
– the decision to adopt
– journal entries of the adoption process
– drawn/written entries
– etc.!The sky is the limit to make this journal reflect your beautiful journey!
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You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
Mississippi, 1967. It’s the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers’ maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice.In You’ll Forget This Ever Happened, Laura Engel takes us back to the Deep South during the turbulent 1960s to explore the oppression of young women who have committed the socially unacceptable crime of becoming pregnant without a ring on their finger. After being forced to give up her newborn son for adoption, Engel lives inside a fortress of silent shame for fifty years—but when her secret son finds her and her safe world is cracked open, those walls crumble.
Are you still a mother even if you have not raised your child? Can the mother/child bond survive years of separation? How deep is the damage caused by buried family secrets and shame? Engel asks herself these and many other questions as she becomes acquainted with the son she never knew, and seeks the acceptance and forgiveness she has long denied herself. Full of both aching sadness and soaring joy, You’ll Forget This Ever Happened is a shocking exposé of a shameful part of our country’s recent past—and a poignant tale of a mother’s enduring love.
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Wanted, Chosen, Loved, Adopted: Adoption Journal/Notebook for New Adoptive Parents (Gift/Present for Couples/Single Parents/Mothers/Gay/Lesbians) Adopt a Newborn Baby, Older…
A large blank lined journal (with a blank date space on the corner of every page), with a beautiful quote on the cover to celebrate the new child in your life. Makes a lovely gift for a loved one, sure to put a smile on their face.
SIZE: 8.5×11 inches (approximate a4)
PAPER: Lined Journal Paper With a Date Space
PAGES: 100
COVER: Soft Glossy Cover.
LoveFamily Publishing make beautiful and modern journals and notebooks to celebrate family life!
Titles Include:
- Wanted, Chosen, Loved, Adopted
- Look At You Adopting a Child and Sh*t!
- My Adopting Experience
- Wanted, Chosen, Loved, Adopted: Me and My Forever Family! (Young Kids Journal)
- Wanted, Chosen, Loved, Adopted: My Adoption Experience: (Older Kids/Teen Journal)
- For This Child I Prayed, Samuel 1:27
- For With God Nothing Shall Be Impossible, Luke:1:37
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The Science of Parenting Adopted Children: A Brain-Based, Trauma-Informed Approach to Cultivating Your Child’s Social, Emotional and Moral Development
Explaining how adoptive parents can help their traumatised child develop, it looks at the many different factors that can manifest in trauma, and how parents should respond to them.Read more
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An Adopter’s Guide to Adoption
A step-by-step guide to the adoption process in England written by an adoptive mum of two. The guide provides tips and information about how to prepare for the adoption process, what each stage of the assessment involves, how matching works and what happens once your child is home. The guide is packed full of information which is put into context with examples of the writer’s experience of the process.Read more
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Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child
Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond – whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences. Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how to use the latest thinking on attachment in your daily parenting. She reveals sensory techniques which have proven to help children bond – straightforward activities like keeping close eye contact or stroking a child’s feet or cheeks – and explains why routines like mealtimes and play time are so important in helping children to attach. The book offers positive ideas for responding to immediate crises like difficult behaviour and meltdowns, but importantly also offers longer-term strategies to help children to develop the skills they need to cope as they grow up – the ability to plan, concentrate and be in control of their emotions. Offering fascinating insights into how children who struggle to attach can be helped, this book is full of easy-to-use ideas which will help you to enjoy the many pleasures of bonding and attaching with your child.Read more
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Adopting a Child: A Guide for People Interested in Adoption
A new, updated edition of this best-selling guide to adoption. This is the book for anyone who has ever thought about adopting a child and wondered what it would involve.Read more
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Pineapple Promise: A Thailand Adoption Memoir
Love can oftentimes be the biggest motivator, and Holly and Vince’s amazing story featured in Pineapple Promise is no exception. Have you ever wondered what would prompt someone to take on such a huge commitment as adopting a child? With these two, it was love all the way. Despite having busy jobs, two children of their own, and living in an expensive region of the USA, they wanted to grow their family even more by adopting a daughter from Thailand – and seeing it through to success!If you’re looking for something witty yet meaningful, then look no further than Pineapple Promise. Written by Holly herself, this memoir takes you through her journey towards becoming adoptive parents – without her or Vince perceiving themselves as ‘saving’ anyone. Sweet, sometimes funny, and oh-so inspiring! Get a copy of Pineapple Promise today and enjoy an amazing story driven by nothing but love.
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Games and Activities for Attaching With Your Child
Packed full of great ideas for fun games and activities, this book encourages positive attachments between a parent or carer and their child.
When it comes to choosing the best games to play with children who have difficulties attaching, it is often hard to know how to play with a purpose. This book contains fun, age-appropriate games along with an explanation of why they matter. All the games included are designed for specific age ranges, from infants to older children, and help to address particular needs in children that are known to affect attachment, including fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. It provides an easy-to-understand description of attachment and reveals the crucial role that play has in forming attachments.
Written for parents and carers, as well as for use by professionals, it is full of strategies to help build healthy attachments in children who have experienced early trauma.
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A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care: What You Need to Know to Create a Healing Home
A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care.
It describes relevant theories, the ‘invisible’ psychological challenges that children will often struggle with and how to develop a nurturing relationship and build trust. Combining advice with practical strategies, the book also provides specific guidance on how to create safe spaces (both physical and relational) and how to aid the development of key social or emotional skills for children which may be lacking as a result of early trauma.
Written with input from foster carers, the book is an ideal guide for residential child care workers, foster carers, kinship carers, social workers and new adoptive parents.
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Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption
This comprehensive and authoritative book, aimed at all those involved in adoption and fostering, provides an accessible account of attachment concepts.Attachment is at the heart of family life and at the heart of foster care and adoption. Attachment theory and research provide a vital developmental framework for making sense of the behaviour and relationship strengths and difficulties that children bring from their complex backgrounds. It also offers a valuable resource for understanding the kind of caregiving in foster care and adoptive families that can enable children to feel more trusting, confident, competent and secure.
This book traces the pathways of secure and insecure patterns from birth to adulthood, exploring the impact of past experiences of abuse, neglect and separation on children s behaviour in foster and adoptive families. It then explains, from an attachment perspective, the dimensions of parenting that are associated with helping children to feel more secure and to fulfil their potential in the family, with peers, at school and in the community. Finally, it tackles the key role which keeping attachment in mind can play in a range of areas of family placement practice, including contact.
Vivid case examples are used to make connections with the reality, both the challenges and the rewards, of daily life in foster and adoptive families.
This book is an indispensable resource for practitioners, foster carers, adoptive parents and all those seeking to ensure that children in need of family care get the very best experience possible and that foster carers and adoptive parents get the support they need and deserve.
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My Dog Eats Plant Pots: Adoption breakdown and its impact on one absolutely normal family
The dream of a family, the inability to create one, after the IVF has failed, led to adoption for this perfectly normal pair. Their lives and that of their faithful canine companion were turned upside down and inside out, when they got astride the rollercoaster of the adoption process. Successfully leaping all the hurdles, being assessed as suitable adopters, they found two children they thought they could care for, and protect, and finally become Mummy and Daddy. The story of two little people, two big people and one slightly eccentric dog. But the fairy tale became a nightmare. When proud people who just didn’t do failure, had to admit defeat, when they finally brought themselves to ask for the help that was promised, and it was not there. How the system is broken, how the blame game begins and then never stops. How those who should be at the centre are rarely put there. A very personal and frank account of adoption failure, disruption, breakdown. It is sad, it is horrid, it hurts. It is happening now, more often than you think, and it needs to be talked about. An important read for potential or existing adopters, or anyone involved with families during or after the adoption process, this challenging account of what can go wrong raises questions over the process of adoption, and more importantly adoption support.Read more
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From Gypsy to Jersey: An Adoption Journey
From Gypsy to Jersey, chronicles how my parents came to adopt me from Romania and how, all these years later, I followed the trail to my birth mother and made the journey back to Romania to connect with my Roma (Gypsy) family and roots. It also explores the conditions and history of the country around the time of my birth and what I learned about the Roma culture.
I am telling my story in the hopes of inspiring other adoptees and giving them the courage to learn more about their past.
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