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So, we have gotten to Naming.
If you are like most parents, naming is one of the fun “hard things” of becoming a parent. I remember combing through baby name books, websites and yahoogroup conversations weighing my different choices. I created exhaustive lists of personal favorites, which I would then [...]
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Ok, here we are - the hardest page (for me, at least) to write in the lifebook.
Before I go any further with actual wording - I will comment briefly on the concept of abandonment, and how some may want to portray what happened to their child versus the facts [...]
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Several people have emailed me on and off line asking if they could use the wording and/or ideas I have written on each Lifebook topic. If you want to use words or ideas contained in those posts FOR PERSONAL, NON-COMMERCIAL USE - go ahead, with my blessing. If anything [...]
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Another potentially hard topic, but a necessary one in my opinion. For me, after realizing that making my child’s first parents tangible was essential in writing her lifebook - including labor & delivery was a ‘must’. Yes, this is the area of her lifebook I know least about (her [...]
(written by Chicagomama. Archived here with permission)
What do you call the man and woman who created your child? And how do you make them real for your child(ren)?
These can be such loaded questions for us parents, and I could go on and on about how I feel about these two people and the terminology that [...]
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