Inside: 10 ways to earn money for your adoption You have made the decision to adopt, but the cost of private adoption can be overwhelming. From the home study to finalization, all of the costs can add up to be more than most people have available. So what do you do? Start earning and saving […]
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Adoption
How to Create a Successful T-Shirt Fundraiser
Inside: 5 tips to a successful t-shirt fundraiser. Selling t-shirts with your original design is a great way to earn money for your adoption. When planning fundraisers, we wanted to create a product for people to buy, without investing much money ourselves. We couldn’t afford to lose money in the process. We used Bonfire to create […]
Foster Care
How to Choose a Foster Care Agency
How do you choose a foster care agency? Should you work with the county or a private agency? Learn more about the options available before you decide. You have made the decision to become a foster parent, but who should you get licensed through? Before adopting our daughter, my husband and I were foster parents. […]
How to Become a Foster Parent
Interested in becoming a licensed foster parent? Use these 8 steps to help guide you through the process. Becoming a foster parent is a huge decision. First of all, completing the paperwork, classes, and certifications is intense and takes a great deal of time. Secondly, your choice impacts your family and the future children you […]
How to Prepare a Bedroom for Foster Care
How can you prepare a room for foster care? Use these tips to help you get ready to welcome a foster child into your home. Before we adopted our daughter, my husband and I were foster parents to two amazing kids. To become foster parents, we had to go through classes and have a home […]
Why I Failed as a Foster Parent
After we were diagnosed with infertility, my husband and I decided to become foster parents with the plan to adopt. I kept reading about people fostering to adopt and seeing people on social media discuss fostering to adopt, so thought it would be a great way for us to grow our family. However, it did […]
Parenting
The Best Books for Young Children About Adoption
Are you beginning to talk to your child about their adoption? These are the best books for children to help start the conversation. As you begin to start talking to your child about their adoption, there are so many books you can use to start the conversation. We began reading some of these books to […]
When and How to Talk to Your Child About Their Adoption
When is is the best time to tell your child they were adopted? How should you start? Some people in our family think I am crazy, but I talk to Baby B about her adoption and birth mom almost everyday. I want it to be a normal part of our conversation and something we talk […]