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Parenting Books Every Adoptive Parent Should Read

This series of books, called "The Helpful Collection" are sensational for walking your child through emotions, naming emotions, working on self-esteem, working on coregulation and self-regulation, helping children define who they are in their own circumstances, and a tool for a variety of circumstances that we face with our children in everyday life. Pick your favorite and purchase just one. I promise you will be back for more!!!

As an adoptive parent I found this book heart breaking, but also it allowed me into the other side of the story in a way I had never experienced, but also a way every adoptive parent, and even adult adoptee, should. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who has adopted or are considering adoption. 

The first time to adoption and the second not long after reuniting with him. In this heart-wrenching and heart-warming memoir, Candace Cahill offers an intimate view of child relinquishment and child loss, the definition of motherhood, and how two things can be true at one time.