Life Books: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child
Change your child's future by giving them their past. An adoption lifebook is a pro-active and unique parenting tool.\ \ What is a lifebook? It is a record of the child's life from birth. It uses words, photos, and the child's artwork to chronicle the critical events in a child's life in child friendly terms.
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Discover the secrets to making your child's lifebook. A step-by-step guide suitable for international or domestic adoptions. Written by an adoptee. Vice President of Holt International Children's Services, author & adoptee, - Susan Soon-Keum Cox . " Every person has his or her own story. For those of us who are adopted, the story does not neatly fit into traditional baby books and journals. But our stories, even the parts that are unknown or painful are part of who we are. Beth O'Malley's LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child is itself a treasure. It is a sensitive, thoughtful, and practical guide for families to help their adopted children learn, understand, and embrace their story and themselves."
\ Mary McGuire… " my daughter's lifebook has only served to bring us closer and increase her trust in me. LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child provides an invaluable service to adoptive families. Your perspective freed me up to pull this together…"\ —adoptive mother of 7-year-old Cassie, adopted from China\ \ \ \ \ Midwest Book Review"In LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child, Beth O'Malley provides the adoptive parent with a unique, invaluable, practical, highly recommended, step-by-step guide for explaining the truth of their child's history in ways that the child can understand, accept and feel good about. Drawing upon her seventeen years of experience and expertise as an adoption worker to write clearly and informatively for a non-specialist general reader. The result will help any adoptive parent to assist their child in creating a record of his or her life from birth using words, photos, graphics, and artwork in the form of a "LifeBook" that is more effective than a general scrapbook or traditional baby book.\ \ \ Susan Soon-Keum Cox… " Every person has his or her own story. For those of us who are adopted, the story does not neatly fit into traditional baby books and journals. But our stories, even the parts that are unknown or painful are part of who we are. Beth O'Malley's LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child is itself a treasure. It is a sensitive, thoughtful, and practical guide for families to help their adopted children learn, understand, and embrace their story and themselves."\ —Vice President of Holt International Children's Services, author & adoptee,\ \
