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One of our friends, author and publisher Carrie Kitze, has put together a guide for new adoptive parents in response to the Hansen case (Returned Russian Adopted Boy), EMK Press and a number of other adoption professionals put together a 50 page guide for new adoptive parents. It's called Realistic Expectations and can be downloaded from her site. A number of the articles have been reprinted from the Adoption Parenting book, while there are others such as our very own Bryan Post, that were specifically created for this guide and we are grateful to those who have shared their expertise. It has already helped a number of families who are currently on their adoption trips.
Excellent Free E-Book for In-Process, New and Experienced Adoptive Parents. EMK press has made available a free e-book entitled Realistic Expectations -The First Year Home. This guide contains articles on such subjects as bonding, attachment, fetal alcohol syndrome, sleep and post-adoption depression. It provides valuable information which will benefit any adoptive parent but is particularly important for potential adoptive parents and those who are recently arrived home. Authors include Bryan Post, Carrie Kitze and Adam Pertman - familiar names in the adoption community. The book can be downloaded at this site: http://www.emkpress.com/realisticexpectations.html.
Thanks for helping us to spread the word by cross posting this on lists that newer adoptive families frequent.
 The founder and Publisher is Carrie Kitze, an adoptive mother of two children from China. She is active in adoption affairs and a speaker at a variety of adoption events worldwide on the topics of Adoption Parenting 101, Parenting with Narratives, Co-creating Lifebooks, Ceremonies and Rituals for adoptive families, and Discovering Differences, a workshop for Kindergarten through third graders. She is a past regional Families with Children from China coordinator, and has written for Adoptive Families Magazine and Adoption Today. She is the author of We See the Moon and I Don't Have Your Eyes and the creator of Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections which she worked on with her editors Sheena Macrae and Jean MacLeod. She spends more time on publishing functions than writing functions these days.
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