20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed
Discover the Secrets to Understanding the Unique Needs of Your Adopted Child-and Becoming the Best Parent You Can Be

Liked: Hmm, not much. A few reminders that some problems need spiritual solutions, and some general good common-sense stuff that you could easily find better presented in other books (The Connected Child would be my first recommendation.) Didn't like: Negativity about adoption. The author has a lot o......more

Liked it okay, didn’t love. Had I read this before we adopted our daughter 8 years ago, I might have been scared out of adoption entirely. As some other reviewers have mentioned, the author seems to have a somewhat “gloom and doom” approach to adoption. I know that my daughter experienced trauma pri......more

I had to stop reading. too much of this framed adoptive children as inherently unhealthy compared to birth children. I understand that adopted kids might have different emotional needs than children you birth yourself but kids that stay in their birth families can have emotional issues too! I wish I......more

If you have enough patience, you will mine things from this book that can help you, put you at ease and make your life as an adoptive parent more understandable for yourself, your child and others. But man. Had I read this before I adopted my first rather than after I adopted my second, I would have......more

This book is very insightful, and offers an honest opinion on how to raise children who have been adopted. As an adoptee myself, there were many moments where I finally felt understood and heard. Like I wasn’t alone or crazy. It made me wish my parents had had this knowledge while I was growing up.......more