Today I watched a private video post between myself and another individual on Seesmic, and what she had to say about motherhood is a gem I can’t pass up not sharing. I transcribed some of what she had to say. Please read it with an open mind.
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“What [our child] does isn’t a direct reflection of our parenting [ability or inadequacies] and isn’t an exact indicator of whether we’re good or bad parents… We’re not always around [our child] and can’t control the decisions he makes himself during times he has control over his actions.”
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2008/08/09 @ 22:00 EDT
I'm a Blogger | I'm an Adoptive Parent | I'm writing 365 Posts in Oh-Eight
Tags: A World of Adoption, adopted, adopting, adoption, adoption agency, adoption agency news, adoption in the news, adoption news, adoption viewpoints, adoptive parenting, bad adoption, CAI, Commonwealth Adoptions International, ethical adoption, international adoption, legal adoption
Commonwealth Adoptions, based out of Tucson, AZ is closing.
I feel strongly compelled to blog in defense of Commonwealth Adoptions International, or to at least offer my opinion about the agency as they were in 1999-2000 when they facilitated my son’s adoption.
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2008/07/03 @ 15:12 EDT
I'm The Kidlet's Mom | I'm a Blogger | I'm a Happy Person | I'm an Adoptive Parent | I'm writing 365 Posts in Oh-Eight
Tags: adopt, adopted, adopting, adoption, adoptive parenting, blog nosh, blogger, blogging, ethical adoption, featured, unethical adoption
Today one of my archived blog posts is featured over a Blog Nosh (magazine) in the Pregnancy/Birth/Adoption channel. I feel famous!
“Blog Nosh Magazine is an online magazine dedicated to promoting the best archived posts from your own personal blogs. “
Thank you Marcie from A Child Chosen and My Two Boys for selecting one of my blog posts for Blog Nosh and complimenting me (big time!) with your comment, “Krissi is one of my favorite adoption bloggers not only because of her loud and proud adoption voice but because she says it like she sees it. I love reading about her experiences, other’s comments, and her sarcastic and flippant reactions to the public and media.”
Rock on!
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2008/06/20 @ 16:25 EDT
I'm The Kidlet's Mom | I'm a Blogger | I'm an Adoptive Parent | I'm writing 365 Posts in Oh-Eight
Tags: adopt, adoption, adoption viewpoints, adoptive parent, adoptive parenting, biological parent, ethical adoption, international adoption, parents, unethical, unethical adoption
When we adopted my son (2000) there was a fairly common (but maybe somewhat unknown?) practice of giving an internationally adopted child a “new” birth date to more suitably match his/her retarded physical/social/emotional development caused by years of institutionalization.
Sometimes a kid would end up (on paper) a whole year or 18 months YOUNGER than he/she actually was.
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