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There are quite a few factors to consider when selecting an adoption registry. Birth parents searching for children or adoptees searching for birth parents all have the same goal ? to find one another quickly and without having to open adoption records.National adoption registries take into consideration that while a person may have been born in one area, they may have been adopted by someone living in a different area altogether. The criteria used for a search is also another major factor to consider. An adoption registry, for example, that asks you to provide the name of the person you are searching for as their main focus may not be able to find the right person very easily.Our search tool has been set up very carefully to consider several questions that the majority of people are easily able to answer. Unlike many adoption registries, our matches give you a pool of results to look through. Additionally, there is no charge to register, essentially giving you a free adoption search where you receive your matches in a percentage format to consider for yourself. This is a superior system in our opinion because our adoption registry is set up to allow you to decide for yourself who is a match and who is not. Communication is initiated by you (unlike many adoption registries who make contact on your behalf), and you do not have to divulge any personal information about yourself if you don?t wish to.Finding biological parents or adopted children can be immediate when you use our adoption registry, which has been designed to be Your Global Reunion Registry!Based on feedback from readers I attempted to bring another of article dealing with kinship homes. I also wrote an article on parenting adult children based on our recent issues with our adult children. I hope Adoption Month has been kind to you all. As always - please feel free to contact me with your article ideas!Holidays and big family gatherings are tough situations for introducing your foster or newly adopted children to the extended family. Your extended family may feel uneasy about your choice to be a foster/adoptive parent in the first place. Meeting the child may help this situation or confirm their fears. Here are 7 Ways to Prepare Yourself, Your Family, and Your Foster Child for Thanksgiving.And remember - if you're going to be visiting a home that doesn't regularly host children or you know your kids are going to be bored - pack up a few craft supplies and have the kids make these hand print turkeys. These could be cute gifts for birth family in an adoptive or foster situation. Most parents love gifts that mark their child's stages of growth.Today, November 23, xxxx, marks the 14th year for National Adoption Day. Through the help of adoption professionals, child advocates, judges, and attorneys, thousands of children in foster care will finalize their adoptions and become part of a permanent home and family.I hope that this National Adoption Day is as successful as the year before. Reports are hoping that 4,500 children from foster care will enter into their forever home today. If you are one of those families, don't forget to spread the good news with an awesome adoption announcement!As more and more agencies look to place older children in adoptive homes, it's important for those homes interested in adopting to look at all they need to do in order to create a healthy adoption with older children and teens.Holidays or big family gatherings are a tough situation for introducing your foster children to your extended family. Your extended family may feel uneasy about your choice to be a foster parent in the first place. Meeting the foster child/ren may help this situation or confirm their fears. Here are some things to consider when preparing your foster child and extended family for a gathering.is not an option due to travel or time, try showing pictures of your extended family to your foster child and go through their names prior to the party.Make sure to give the extended family time to be just with you and your child/ren. Consider busying the foster children with a game or movie to give your children time to visit with a visiting Aunt, for example. Some foster children are very attention seeking and may unknowingly "hog the show". This may cause hard feelings within your family.Remember confidentiality. Most people care about the plight of children. Some may ask what seems to be harmless questions about why your foster children are in care, but to answer these questions would mean breaking the confidentiality of your foster child and his/her birth family. Politely tell your family that you appreciate their concern. Then explain how you know that they'll understand that keeping the children's past confidential provides them more security and respect.Have gifts ready for the foster children at family holiday gift exchanges. Offer this to your extended family so that they don't feel obligated to add to their already long buying lists. If they are able and willing to buy for the children be sure to tell them a bit about the kids and their interests.Here are a few easy to give gift ideas.Personal CD players and CDs. A good CD is NOW which has a variety of current hits. There is also one available with the top country hits. These are very well edited.Consider giving foster children gifts that will give them something to do at holiday get-togethers, like board games. This is especially needed if there are no kids their age at the parties. The kids may become bored.Go over basic manners and rules prior to the get-together. Go over 'Thank You', 'Please', and 'Excuse me' and the situations in which to use these words. Remind the children to say 'Thank You' even if they don't like a gift. Go over other basics like no running in the house, table manners such as how food is passed, and chewing with their mouths closed. Consider practicing at home if time allows. Role plays can be fun.Pre-teach about the party situation. Go over the number of people that will probably attend. How loud will it be? We had a foster child who became frightened when she interpreted a loud game of cards as a fight. Will there be a toy room at the party? How about a room that kids are not allowed? Are there family rules that are well known that you need to inform the children about? For example an Aunt that doesn't allow visitors to wear shoes in the Pre-teach about the season. Do the children have a general knowledge about the holiday? Ask about their past holiday celebrations at home. Are they used to having a tree? Visiting Santa? Having a stocking? Do they understand the Easter season? Will seeing a Easter Pageant be scary for them? Some Easter Pageants can be quite graphic. They may be over whelmed if not scared by some traditional holiday events.Yes, I?m only kidding with the following suggestions, unless of course you do want to lose your foster parenting friend. But these are statements that I, and many of my foster parent friends, have personally heard from other well-meaning friends and family. I know hurting me or my family was not intended, but I do hope that through this article others can see how simple statements can have an impact on others.Tell your foster parenting friends how you could never do foster care because you would love the children too much. This way the foster family feels a bit cold-hearted as that is the only way anyone could do foster care, according to your statement.Bug the foster family with questions about why the children are not with their birth mom and dad. This is a great way to push the foster family into breaking confidentiality and ruining their reputation as a professional part of the foster care team.Advise the foster family that the foster child just needs a good spanking to solve behavior problems. The foster family will then feel further overwhelmed not only in dealing with behaviors, but in constantly having to explain and defend discipline choices.Devalue the foster family's choice to serve the children of the community by criticizing their decision. Explain how you would never do foster care because it brings bad influences into your home and into the lives of your children.Say things like, "you're too strict", "all foster children need is love," and "you should baby the kids more,they've been through so much" undermining the foster parent's ability to make parenting choices for the children within their care.Refuse to understand the need for the children to have boundaries within relationships and triangulate with the kids every chance you get. Try siding with the kids against the foster parents, they love this!When the foster parent is venting to you as one of their much needed support systems, say, ?I?ve never seen the foster child act like that, he/she was perfect for me,? or ?I would take him/her in a minute if I could.? This will cause the foster parent to think that they are going crazy and doubt what they are seeing in the child?s behavior.If the foster child drives you crazy then feel free to tell the foster parents about it. Don?t worry about saying anything rude about the child within their care, it?s not like they are the foster child's REAL parents anyway. Say things like, ?how can you stand that kid?? ? I would have shipped him/her off long ago.? Be sure to complain about the child every chance you get, ignoring any hint of hurt from the foster parent.Drive home any feelings of ineptness by telling the foster parents how you?d have ?that kid straightened out in two weeks." Nothing makes a foster parent feel unsuccessful like comparison of parenting skills. This will cause the foster parents to doubt their parenting ability and to second guess every choice and decision.Guilt is a very effective tool if you want to destroy someone?s self-worth. Ask the foster parents if they feel terrible about taking away from their own children with their choice of doing foster care. This is even more effective during times of high stress when the foster child is having behavior problems and the family is in crisis mode.If you follow these 10 easy steps you too could end a perfectly good friendship with your pal who does foster care! If, however, you value this friendship and your friend - try the opposite of each of the above statements. I bet your foster parenting friend will appreciate it!Foster care is a lot of work and stress, but it's also very rewarding. The emotional roller coaster of fostering can either build your relationships or destroy them. Here is a tongue-in-cheek look at how foster care can hurt your marriage. Written with humor, but with meaning behind each suggestion. Neglect your marriage. Stay away from things like date nights - NEVER have couple time. Allow foster care to become your whole world with room for nothing else.Allow the child to manipulate and triangulate. Playing you against your spouse is a great game! Fall into conversations with openers like, "Boy, Dad said you wouldn't let me go with my friends, but he would." or "When Mom is with us all day she lets us play the game system for three hours at a time."Of course, I'm being sarcastic and I hope we all can look at the above list and see where we may need to adjust our own behavior and coping - or lack of coping - mechanisms.Music is so very powerful. Whether you're an adoptee, a birth parent, an adoptive parent, or a prospective adoptive parent, there may be a song or two that just means more to you than anything else on the radio. Whether the song is meant to be specifically to be an adoption song, what songs are meaningful to you.Most every new parent, especially moms, look forward to their baby shower. But what about adoptive parents who are adopting a child older than an infant? That's when the host or hostess would throw an adoption welcome party. Learn more about hosting the perfect welcome party.I think the Pop Quiz adoption baby shower game is my favorite. This adoption baby shower game offers an opportunity to educate on adoption, but open up discussion with family and friends.Due to the many references of pregnancy, labor, and birth that is associated with baby shower games, it's important to really try to find games that can be edited to include adoption references or to avoid games that rely heavily on those references all together. Here are several baby shower game ideas and tips for those adoption baby shower hosts and hostesses with a lot of help from our About.Some parents like to make their own adoption announcements while other families feel it's better to buy. Find several options of adoption announcements below. Pick which style fits your family and let the world know your good news through a beautiful adoption announcement.Step-by-step directions on how to create a super easy adoption announcement. This adoption announcement should also be super easy on your budget.President of the United States,Barack Obama, proclaims November of as National Adoption Month. Read the latest presidential proclamation here of Barack Obama making November National Adoption Month.Adoption announcements for older child adoptions are very difficult to find. Here are the instructions on how to make an adoption announcement that would work great for an older child adoption.Adoption announcements for international adoptions are difficult to find. Here is an easy to make adoption announcement perfect for international adoptions.This adoption announcement would work for an older child or internationally adopted child.A cute and easy to make adoption announcement. This adoption announcement would work for an older child or internationally adopted child.Making a simple announcement plus links to various sites that offer adoption announcements.Many major organizations have a signature event and now foster care does too, Walk Me Home. May 3rd, which is National Foster Care Awareness Month, and running through October, Walk Me Home is beginning with an ambitious first year. The goals for this walking campaign 1) Raise awareness for foster care, 2)Develop a positive vehicle for recruitment and retention of foster parents and 3) Raise 1,000,000 nationwide for the children in foster care.Find a calendar of events to help you celebrate the month as well as the history of National Adoption Month.Ready to make your New Year's Resolutions? Think you're ready to foster or adopt and this is the year? Try one of these 10 ideas to get your New Year on the right track and your foster or adoptive journey.Tapestry Books is the premiere online adoption book store for learning about adoption. Founded in xxxx the company was the first Adoption Book Catalog to also provide customers with a Web site. Our staff are parents, and professionals, who understand the issues surrounding adoption and infertility, and have a genuine desire to improve the quality of resources available to adoptive families.The Month of November is National Adoption Month. In honor of the month, let's work to not only celebrate adoption and work to get the word out for more adoptive homes, but strengthen our adoptive homes and families with fun activities.India is fortunate they have managed to rebuild their batting order so quickly. While it's too early to predict how the new order will do in conditions that favour fast bowling, the rapidity with which a new set of good batsmen - who have at the very least shown the hunger to bat for long - has been found is remarkable. In a way, this desire to bat long is the biggest tribute to the men who have stepped aside. Batting was always India's strong suit, but the magnificence of the band of five, especially outside India, has ensured their deeds will be a wellspring of inspiration for years to come. The ability to pass the baton is not India's strength as a society, and Indian cricket must consider itself a lucky exception to be witness to a fairly seamless transition. The greatness of Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman and Ganguly was that they built large and crucial partnerships, and the first four loved making big hundreds. Giving us an appreciation of the value and impact of the match-turning big hundred in a large partnership is their lasting legacy, and it seems to have made an early impact on Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. I believe there is another sort of effect that this batting order has had and will have on India's current and future batsmen. And I've come around to the topic at hand. The playing styles of the five senior former batsmen reflect a richness of texture that will find echoes in Indian batting orders to come. And the same variety will serve as a model, untrammelled by convention yet respectful of the fundamentals of technique, a batting template that is a reminder of body balance, alignment of head position, and the virtues of playing the ball late, but not restrictive of the wristy flourish and of playing beside the line of the ball when the occasion allows for it. The more technically sound three in the old order, apart from sharing personality traits (has there ever been a softer-spoken, nicer middle order I wonder), complemented each other beautifully: the stoic artistry of Dravid at one-drop, the science and art of Tendulkar's experiments with cricket at two-down, and the wispy, dreamy rhythms of VVS. The scene for this middle-order serenity was often perfectly set up by the remorseless aggression of Sehwag's playmaking, and frequently the battle felt truly joined with the moody, feisty left-handed grace of Ganguly. While judgement of ability can prudently wait, a stylistic comparison of the old order with the new can be attempted. At the top, Dhawan makes the by-most-standards minimalist Sehwag look a merciless ball-beater in comparison. If Sehwag was known to hum a tune to keep his spirits up and mind fresh, Dhawan might well be singing multiple songs all at once. Sehwag looked like he wished to submit the bowler to a real flogging; Dhawan resembles a high-spirited swordsman who chanced upon a cricket ground on one of his jolly jaunts; having found himself there, he seems to be laughing out loud with every twirl of his moustache - at the fielding team's obvious discomfiture at not just having fluffed their lines but seemingly completely forgotten them. There is a bit of the ambush about his batting: bowlers aren't entirely sure what to expect next. He is a combination of Ganguly and Sehwag on the off side, with an ability to put the short, fast ball on leg away that was missing in both. Murali Vijay camps on his back foot generally, and has tremendous hands. Through the off side and to full balls on the leg, he oozes grace with every caressed drive and flick. It is almost as if it was VVS all over again, except he had now developed a bit of a swagger, didn't have a dodgy back and knees, and didn't mind hitting the occasional ball in anger. Will that silken brushstroke pull be unfurled at some point? Or does that require an exposure to matting pitches in your early cricket.Pujara's presence at one-drop is a throwback to an earlier age. Monk-like in batting manner, he is the least excitable of India's new order. He tends to use his feet versus spin more than his predecessor at No. 3 did. His footwork is decisive against spin and pace alike, and speaks of a clear, methodical approach to his cricket. He reminds me of a young Sanjay Manjrekar in his square-of-the wicket off-side play and his straight-batted flicks through leg. There's a minimum of flourish, very rarely the intent to hit the ball in the air, and the use of a light bat. Everything is focused on scoring runs and by the heap. A kind of Indian Mr Cricket. Kohli, Tendulkar's heir at No. 4, is the most flamboyant of the new order and possibly the most complete, versatile player of the current lot, at the moment. In being the leader of the bunch, ability-wise, he's like Sachin. If Vijay and Rohit Sharma exude effortless grace and rely on touch play, Kohli's timing is explosive. In batting manner, he's more Ponting than Tendulkar, wristy flourish coupled with a dismissive, combative abrasiveness evident most in his hooking and pulling. The slightest lapse in length will be punished, and he will not hesitate to dominate. Already he has played the most difficult bowlers well, albeit in one-dayers, notably looking remarkably sure of himself against Malinga and Saeed Ajmal. Rohit Sharma, a wristier version of Mark Waugh in style, is well-suited to No. 5 or 6 now, because he is equipped to bat well with the tail. Although perfectly capable of flamboyance, he seems to prefer the smooth build-up to an innings, tucking the ball in the gaps and not getting bogged down, a bit like VVS. Having batted against the new ball in one-dayers, he plays the short ball with time to spare, and can accelerate if required against the second new ball in Tests. Before you know it, he might get to 30 or 40, and this can be handy when batting with the tail.Stylistically then, this young bunch is just as varied as the old one. Dhawan can counter-punch, a sigh might escape you as you watch Vijay ease into a cover drive, Pujara can calm us and his compatriots, Kohli can set your pulse racing, and Rohit will glide his way about. It will take a bit of time for this new order to work out a successful method on pitches away from home; a longer tour than the one to South Africa would have given them more breathing space. As we wait for Sehwag and Gambhir to regain their form, it will be fascinating to watch these young men find their feet. The series ahead might herald a new batting dawn. Cricket awaits its breaking light.I think Rahane would be a better bet than Vijay. More patience and much more suited to Test cricket than Vijay. Also he's younger, and has more to offer than MV. I think he should be the test opener. Just an opinion killbillgbu,if you watched the test matches that he played recently then you would not even comment as you did.As a matter of fact(maybe opionion).VM is one of the most graceful cricketer in the morden era.He also averages 50+,not bad.He is more suited for the longer version than the shorter ones.Just good as VVXL.Prabhakar Muthukrishnan Philly is a seamer mate, we are all surprised hen he gets one to swing now and then. The next test at the wanderers is going to be a special one for big Vern. He is going to take his 100th test wicket in only his 19th match. Only 5 wickets to go, and since it is the wanderers, I'm guessing that he will be going well
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