Welcome Home, Forever Child: A Celebration of Children Adopted As Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Beyond

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This book offers a loving message of reassurance and permanence. After expressing their excitement at welcoming their new child home, the new parents acknowledge that they missed significant events and milestones in the child's early years. The family then cheerfully looks forward to the experiences and 'firsts' they will share and the memories they will make together. Throughout the book, the parents promise to love and nurture their child. Finally, the family reiterates their joy at welcoming their Forever Child into his or her Forever Family. Social workers, therapists, support groups, and CASA volunteers will want to recommend it to the families they work with. Welcome Home, Forever Child will also make a very special keepsake gift for a child upon joining his or her new family, or finalizing the adoption, or the anniversary of either event.

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Foster Cline

"I truly enjoyed reading Welcome Home, Forever Child. Children will love the pictures and delightful rhymes. This book helps adopted kids to celebrate life and activities in their adoptive home while providing a framework to understand their infancy in another place. This book will be useful in helping children bond to adoptive parents."--(Foster Cline, M.D., Co-author with Jim Fay, Parenting with Love and Logic and Parenting Teens with Love and Logic)

Jayne Schooler

"Christine Mitchell truly captures the heart's desire of an adoptive parent welcoming an older child into their home. Written with warmth and understanding, Christine captures hope for the adoptive family and most of all, hope for the new child. Welcome Home, Forever Child will be a great book to keep on the night stand of every toddler or pre-school child coming home."--(Jayne Schooler, adoptive parent and author of several books on adoption, including Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child and Journeys After Adoption.)

Mary Hopkins-Best

"This book provides reassurance to children and parents that a lifetime of important memories can be created regardless of the age at which a child joins his or her forever family. The rhymes and delightful illustrations will appeal to children from toddler age through middle childhood."--(Mary Hopkins-Best, Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft)

Regina M. Kupecky

"A great way to help young children to understand what adoption and forever means in their lives. Parents and children will love to see the many firsts they will share while grieving the ones they missed. Fun illustrations and the rhyming cadence are sure to delight the preschool set."--(Regina M. Kupecky, L.S.W., co-author with Gregory C. Keck, PH.D., Adopting the Hurt Child and Parenting the Hurt Child)

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ISBN-13: 9781425963040
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication date: 12/28/2006
Pages: 32
Sales rank: 544,093
Product dimensions: 0.08 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 8.50 (d)

Meet the Author

The author lives in Northern California with her husband and two daughters; one through the miracle of birth and one through the miracle of adoption, at the age of four. Ms. Mitchell had difficulty finding appropriate adoption books for her daughter. The vast majority of children's adoption books reflect infant adoptions, and often are not ideal for children who spent months or years in foster care or an orphanage. She was inspired to write Welcome Home, Forever Child for her daughter and for other families who adopted their children as toddlers or older.

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We wished so long for a child like you,
and then at last our dreams came true.
It seems that in His way God knew,
He'd found the perfect home for you.
You were past diapers, bottles, and cribs;
you would need no more booties or bibs.
Though we weren't there for your first word,
we're grateful that our prayers were heard.

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Posted August 28, 2007

A Must-have for an older-child adoption!

The book Welcome Home, Forever Child is a wonderful children's book! This one is different from the children's books I've reviewed in the past, as this one is written particularly for children who are NOT adopted as infants. There is a whole different set of issues and questions that go along with a child who is adopted at an older age. They may remember experiences shared with birth and/or foster families, and have questions about how long they will be with their 'new' family. If you've adopted a toddler, preschooler, or older child, then this book is a MUST for your family! Author Christine Mitchell shares a story of love and the meaning of adoption in rhyming words that children will love to hear and easily understand. It will help create a bond with adoptive parents, and explain to the child what 'forever' means. The illustrations are so sweet. The author has used cats as the characters in the story. I love this because it makes the book appropriate for any type of adoptive situation- transracial, etc. The book starts out by talking about all the important milestones that may have been missed by the adoptive parents, but goes on to primarily focus on all the 'firsts' that are to come, with a promise of being there to share in them. I am sure this book will be one that you will read over and over again with your child(ren).
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Posted February 23, 2007

For Transracial and Multiracial Adoptive Families Too

This reassuring and loving book for children adopted as toddlers and older is illustrated with paintings of a cat family, all of whom have different patterns and colors. It is a much needed addition to the home libraries of transracial and multiracial families, as well as public libraries & schools.
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Welcome Home, Forever Child: A Celebration of Children Adopted As Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Beyond

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