How Do You Prepare To Parent An Adopted Child?
While it may be a very exciting period in your family’s life, adopting a child can be a stressful time, full of doubts and emotions that you may not understand. It is good to recognize the need for help as you prepare to parent an adopted child. As the day draws near when your child will come home with you, use a few of these tips to prepare. Contact all the support lines that are available to you, including online groups of adoptive parents, social workers and community family organizations. Get in touch with these folks before you need them so that when you do run across an issue, a line of communication is already open. Fix up the child’s room to show how much the child is wanted. If this is a new baby for you, make sure to childproof the house. If it is an older child, make the room as welcoming and personal as possible. Talk to all the others in your family and honestly answer questions they may have. Siblings, in particular, may harbor some ambivalence to the whole process. They
