“Am I like my Ethiopia mommy?”

“Did my tummy mommy love me?”

“Why didn’t she keep me?”

These questions can pop up any time but birthdays and holidays are sometimes a trigger and provide a special opportunity to process the grief that is part of every adoption.  Here is a beautiful way to help your adopted son or daughter honor their birth parents on their birthday – a time when lots of questions and feelings may come to the surface and grief is revisited…

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We have some other links to articles and posts that may be helpful below.
Talking to Your Kids About Adoption
11 points to help get you started

Please leave a comment and share your own ideas for ways to help kids process their emotions about their birth family.