9 BETTER Ways to Celebrate National Adoption Awareness Month
Flipping the Script on a mainstream National Adoption Awareness Month article. It has lots of advice about adoption. I just picked this one at random called "9 Ways to Celebrate National Adoption Month" and re-wrote it. 1. Retell Your Child’s Adoption Story to Them . How about you allow your child to tell his/her own story? Buy them an art pad or journal to draw or write their adoption story as they see it. Pro vide them lots of photos and information so they can make sense of their Chapter 1. Include their birth story. 2. Spread Awareness Through Social Media . The article advises to share your family’s adoption story. We don’t need more adoption stories via the eyes of adoptive parents. We need more #adoptee stories. 3. Watch Positive Adoption Movies With Your Family . Watch This is Us instead. Or better yet watch, "A Girl Like Her " by Ann Fessler. Or any documentary produced by an adoptee or birth parent. My favorites are by Jean Strauss ...