About Adoption: Summer Fun Idea-Create a Lifebook with Your Child

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Adoption Adoption Adoption Basics Parenting Advice Foster Care From Carrie Craft, your Guide to Adoption Imagine the images of your child's first birthday cake, lost forever, not due to a natural disaster or home fire, but due to several moves within the foster care system. Help preserve a foster child's memories this summer, work on their lifebook. Best Ideas on How to Complete a Lifebook for Your Child A lifebook can be a great healing tool for a foster or adopted child. Some children move so often due to the foster care system or failed adoptions, that much of their life story is lost. A lifebook tells the story of a child's life, from birth through each foster or adoptive placement. It tells the truth. It is reality. Here are 10 points to help create an awesome lifebook. What Not to Put into a Foster or Adopted Child's Lifebook A lifebook may bring up emotions of past grief and loss issues for the child as well as for the foster or adoptive parent. One question that seems to come up a lot is, "Are there things I shouldn't put into a child's lifebook?" Here are 3 things not to include in a child's lifebook. Why an Extra Copy of a Lifebook Is a Good Idea A second copy is a great idea, whether it's because of too much love or too much anger. The reason for the copy changes from child to child or even day to day. Join Me on Facebook Adoption / Foster Care Ads Adoption Agency Adoption of Child Russia Adoption Adoption Orphans Biracial Adoption Featured Articles Share Your Adoption Story Adoption Poems by Subject African American Hair Styles Adoption Search & Reunion Join the Community Talk with Members of the Adoption Triad   More from About.com Plan a Unique Vegas Wedding The minister, music and champagne are just the beginning -- why not get married aboard a helicopter or have a pirate swing in to deliver your rings? Arrrr! More> Join About.com's User Panel! Share your opinions and help us make About.com more relevant, informative and enjoyable to use. More> This newsletter is written by: Carrie Craft Adoption Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Adoption newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Share the Knowledge Favorite Lifebook Tips How Do You Make Your Child's Birth Culture a Part of Everyday Life? What Is Your Favorite Source of Parent Support? Advertisement