[trunks888]

Do any of you know any online books or anything
on adoption or parenting an adopted child?

[FamilyBound]

Click on the adoptionshop.com link at the top of this page, you'll find a great selection!

[Howdy]

I've found dozens of good books at my local library. They weren't really all at my library, but I took in lists of books and they borrowed them from other libraries. Sometimes I had to pay a dollar for mailing expenses for some of them. A few times the librarian thought one would sound interesting and they bought a copy for our local library.

The way I made lists of books was, I went to www.amazon.com and I searched for books with the word 'adoption'. Then I read the customer reviews (there will be a link in the left side of the page) and the ones that people like and recommended I added to my list.

Some of the ones I remember the titles of were Adopting the Hurt Child, Parenting the Hurt Child, Adopting the Older Child, Attaching in Adoption, and Real Parents Real Children. After a few dozen books on parenting adopted children, I switched to reading books about emotional problems and how to deal with them, such as The Explosive Child and The Defiant Child.

Then there were lots and lots of books and books-on-tape at the library on parenting in general , such as 'Love and Logic' (there is a book, but there are also dozens of cassette tapes about specific topics such as homework, setting limits, stepparenting, sibling rivalry, etc.), 'Raising Resilient Children', 'Raising Boys', and helping kids deal with specific problems: 'Take the Bully by the Horns', 'Mommy I'm Scared!', etc.

Now I'm starting to change to looking for books about normal child development and also different personalities of children. The book I'm reading right now is called 'Strong-willed Children or Dreamers?' and is about sensitive-creative-imaginative children.

[trunks888]

I thank you so much for the input.
I want to be sure when the time comes
I'm as ready as possible.

I know no matter how much a person try's to know
about being a parent there's always thinks you can
for see but it's best to be ready for as much as you can
so you can be the best parent you can be
so there for I want to know all I can

I also hear that if your well educated and things
it helps your odds of being aproved to adopt a child as well
witch of course I really want to do
but The main reason for reading is to make sure i'm a good parent of course.

Well Thanks
Take care and may God bless.