num_pages: 232
description: This is not just another book about adoptive parenting. This is the real stuff: dynamic messy baffling adoptive parenting rooted in domestic life.Award-winning columnist and adoptive parent Sally Donovan offers savvy compassionate advice on how to be 'good enough' in the face of both day-to-day and more bewildering challenges  how to respond to 'red mist' meltdowns crippling anxieties about new routines and most importantly how to meet the intimidating challenge of being strong enough to protect and nurture your child.Full of affecting and hilarious stories drawn from life in the Donovan household The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting offers parents a refreshing counterblast to stuffy parenting manuals -- read it weep laugh and learn.
language: English
title: The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting
publisher:  Jessica Kingsley Publishers