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Life Lessons for my Future (Adopted) Daughter
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 7 2025
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When my husband and I began preparing to adopt a daughter, I began typing up an overview of my recent bloodline, and that of my husband, some events from our lives, and some lessons we and our ancestors had learned over the years. And I included a section at the end for our future daughter to write in anything she knew about her family of origin and then memorable experiences from her first year with us, her new family. This project surprised me as it kept growing.
Now it includes most or all of the most essential lessons in life to help our future child know how to get through the many confusing challenges life tends to throw at us, and it has become a primer for how to teach someone to think critically and form their own opinions. I continued writing it far beyond its original purpose largely so it will be there for future generations.
This project has also become about encouraging girls to fight for a life they'll love, no matter the odds, and teaching girls not to repeat the mistakes of women who've come before them or the vicious women in workplaces and elsewhere who try to tear other women down instead of all of us females building each other up, just as I want my future (adopted) daughter to believe in herself enough to do.
Among other things, this book explores the many challenges I had to fight through to get to my current life, including growing up in poverty, lack of early education, an abusive mother, several women in work situations who fought to keep me from success, and a beloved boyfriend's ex-wife who would stop at nothing to cause us problems. But, as I always prove, where there's a will, there's a way. And where there's true love for something-an art you're passionate about, a pursuit like local and international travel, or a man who is the love of your life-there's a way.
Thinking of adopting?
There is a blank, downloadable, fully editable Word document Family Tree Story booklet for your own family (or teachers trying to include all of their students in a family tree activity) available on my TpayT.
https: //www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Family-Story-Booklet-for-Adoptive-Parents-Our-Family-Tree-Story-12767880.) Update: We were denied our application to adopt through the State due to a technicality about our house. This book now contains a section detailing the struggles of trying to adopt an older child and addresses some of the issues that need to be fixed related to the fostering and adopting system in our country. I hope that this contribution to writing about this issue helps people to reform our fostering and adopting system in this country. So I am still a lifelong non-mom but with a much more positive attitude towards mothers and mothering after having written this book.Also from
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