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When Adoption Doesn’t Go As Planned

“Positive Parenting” radio show for military families Guest: Samantha Feuss, adoptive mother of two. Topic: When adoption doesn’t work out. Issues: The risks of international adoptions; what agencies don’t tell you about your adopted child’s background, age, and more; worries about being judged if an adoption goes bad; finding support from other parents and social workers who understand what it’s like.     Armin Brott Dad of three, best-selling author, speaker, nationally syndicated columnist and radio host, Marine Corps vet, spokesperson, and, generally speaking, a pretty nice guy. Website: http://www.dadsoup.com Twitter: mrdad Tweet #fighting4answrs

Special Needs Mom Confessions: Sometimes I’m so Tired

this is a reblogged post from http://www.katscafe.org I’m Exhausted. Sometimes So Tired of this Thing Called being a Special Needs Mom Over the last few weeks, we’ve had our ups and downs here in the Moody house. You might have noticed I haven’t been around as much here at the Cafe. You might even know enough of me and the gang to realize that usually means we have fun stuff happening in the real world. And we need … Logan has had several days with breakthrough seizures. He’s dealing with regression from his last really bad round of seizures from almost two weeks ago, and yet he just came home from school on Thursday because he started the day off with several small seizures there. The rest of our little world is pretty much status quo. There are no other emergencies. No fires to put out and deal with. There

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Left hand – Right hand

Left hand – Right hand I find it amazing that in the age of technology, the left hand still doesn’t know what the right had is doing. Example. An agency with locations in two cities 100 miles apart. Medical Records are faxed to location A.  Admissions rep is located in location B. Left hand – Right hand Admissions rep complains that no records have been received yet. Location A contains the primary headquarters of the agency.  Location A doesn’t let anyone in location B know that they received those records.  Location B can’t be bothered to check location A to see the records were sent there. In our defense, we were told to request the records, not that they were supposed to go to location B because the two locations don’t communicate with each other. Left hand – Right hand I repeat the left hand – right hand words because

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