What they DON'T tell you on prep groups!

This is a blog of the things we have learned as a new adoptive Mum and Dad to three children under the age of five. For 'Mum' you can read 'Dad' and 'parent'. It is also a record of some of the things no-one told us on the prep groups. Some of it is what children get up to in general and some of it is adoption-specific. Regardless, it should be an interesting read for any parent, prospective and adoptive. Feel free to add your comments, which I shall publish.

4 Jan 2011

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...thinking that their birth parents got it wrong (maybe not all the time) and so there is additional pressure to get the parenting more right than they did.  And then I get so engrossed in trying to get it so right (even thought I don't know what I'm doing half the time!) that I stress myself out so severely that I am doing myself more mental damage.  I need to remember that I am me, that they are now in a safe place and my parenting skills need to be "good enough" not "perfect"
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