Immediate reassurance  When children first find out that their parents are getting a divorce they may wonder what will happen to them.  Once a parent has left, they may wonder if the other parent will leave them, too.  They need immediate reassurance that they will be cared for by a responsible parent. Honest age appropriate […]

Who am I? As an adopted child going through her teen years, I began to fantasize about the unknown of my past. People who didn’t know I was adopted would say, “You look just like your father!” I was blessed with a wonderful set of Christian parents and a brother. I had always taken pride […]

Curled up in a porcelain bathtub that had been donated to my elementary school library to encourage kids to read, I read, for the first time, about a girl going through her parents’ divorce.  I couldn’t put the book down.  Judy Blume had single-handedly pulled me out of my distaste for reading and provided a […]