Tips to remember

Here are a few more things to keep in mind:

• Education promotes understanding. Understanding encourages empathy, which in turn provides patience. These tools are necessary to effectively parent the child who has been adopted.

• If seeking therapy for your child, address your own first. Think of airplane cabin decompression: put your oxygen mask on before your child’s. If you don’t, you can’t possibly help your child.

• Work with a therapist well-versed in adoption and adoption issues. Therapists unfamiliar with adoption and inherent issues in adoption will be ineffective.