Toddler Adoption
The Weaver's Craft
Mary Hopkins-Best
Paperback: £13.99 / $19.95
2012, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-894-0, BIC 2: VFVK
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Toddler Adoption looks at the unique joys and challenges of adopting and parenting a toddler.
When a child aged is adopted between the ages of 12 to 36 months, they often show signs of cognitive and emotional immaturity, which can cause behavioral and relational issues. This book offers support and practical tools to help parents prepare for and support the toddler's transition between the familiar environment of their biological parent's home or foster home to a new and unfamiliar one, and considers the issues that arise at different developmental stages. It highlights the challenges that parents are likely to encounter, but also gives positive guidance on how to overcome them.
Written by a specialist in children's development who is also an adoptive parent herself, this fully revised and updated edition of the go-to-source on adopting toddlers is essential reading for both parents and professionals working with adoptive families.
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When Adopted Toddlers Reject Their Parents by JKP author Mary Hopkins-Best
30 July 2012
This article written by Mary Hopkins-Best, adapted from her book Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Jan. 2012), originally published by Perspectives Press, first appeared in the Autumn, 1997 issue of The Post, the newsletter of the Parent Network for the Post Institutionalized Child: More and more adopted children are arriving home between...
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