Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years

Civil Wars, famines, tyrannical governments, so many factors may take parents from a child so early in their life. “Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years” is a guide for those parents with big enough hearts to take in a child that is not only not their own, but from another country entirely. Focusing on advice on helping bridging the cultural divide and helping the children get over the loss of their old home, regardless if it was horrible or not, it’s an ideal guide for these parents who want to help these children’s transitions be as smooth as possible. “Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child” is a must for these parents for the info contained within.

Rating: 5 / 5

This is a wonderfully written and comprehensive book about adoption and parenting. I have been reading tons about adoption, parenting and how children learn, and this is the one book that summarizes everything thoroughly and straight to the point. Much of the content is backed up by scientific and psychological research. It is a must read for any parent adopting a child from overseas. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Rating: 5 / 5

This is a wonderful book for both preadoptive and adoptive parents. It gives parents great ideas for things to try with your child as they grow up. All adoptive parents should read this book! Adoptive parents will reference it many times while raising their adoptive child.

Robin

http://www.thinkingofadopting.com
Rating: 5 / 5

I’m typically not a fan of self-help or “the latest in research” types of books, so I was initially hesitant to buy this book. But I did buy it on strong recommendation from a friend. And I’m glad I did. Wow. As the parent of a 2 year old adopted daughter from China, I am amazed at how Patty Cogen explains behavior patterns of internationally adopted children as related to scientific research in child development and brain development. With each chapter, I feel as if Cogen is talking about my daughter and is talking to me about parenting practices that will work best with her. This is a must-read for all parents of internationally adopted children, whether those children are infants or teenagers.
Rating: 5 / 5

We were required by our adoption agency to read several adoption related books. Unfortunately, this book was not on the list. We’ve had our little internationally adopted child home for two years now, and just recently had this book recommended to us. How I wish we had read it before we even brought her home!!!! This is a GREAT book that I would highly recommend to anyone who is considering adopting or already have their child home. This book is very easy to read and understand, really down to earth. If we had read the book earlier we would have recognized some issues in our child earlier that we could have worked on much sooner. We have three biological children, and now our one adopted child. Raising an internationally adopted child is far, far different than raising a bio child. This is a great book. I’m going to tell our adoption agency that they ought to put it on their required reading list!
Rating: 4 / 5