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Summary: It's about time! Wonderful book!
Review: I find this book very helpful and easy to read. It is a wonderful tool to use with the children, as well as, the perspective parents. As an adoption social worker, I find this very useful and relieved that there is finally current information to be able to do something with the children that is so important. An easy read. Beth O'Malley's sense of humor is wonderful and the way she writes it makes you want to go and do it.
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Summary: So Helpful!
Review: I'm a pretty devoted scrapbooker, but I just knew somehow that this "lifebook" thing was meant to be different from one of my regular scrapbooks. Beth O'Malley's book explained how and why it is different and provided excellent guidance on creating this very special gift for the adopted child.With the guidance of this book, I'm now working away at my daughter's lifebook. This book can guide you whether your adoption was international or domestic, an infant adoption or an older child, a child who was in foster care . . . Whatever the circumstances, Beth O'Malley has guidance and advice for how to handle it in the lifebook. If you are an adoptive parent, I urge you to get this book and get to work on this important part of preserving and transmitting your beloved child's story.
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Summary: More effective than a general scrapbook
Review: In LifeBooks: Creating A Treasure For The Adopted Child, Beth O'Malley provides the adoptive parent with a unique, invaluable, practical, highly recommended, step-by-step guide for explaining the truth of their child's history in ways that the child can understand, accept, and feel good about. Drawing upon her own seventeen years of experience and expertise as an adoption worker to write clearly and informatively for a non-specialist general reader. The result will help any adoptive parent to assist their child in creating a record of his or her life from birth using words, photos, graphics and artwork in the form of a "LifeBook" that is more effective than a general scrapbook or traditional baby book.
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Summary: 22 years too late
Review: My mother is a social worker and she uses this book in her work. My mother brought the book home for me to look at. As an adoptee, I feel this book is a wonderful way for adoptive children to understand their history and to have a connection with their biological parents. I wish this book had been written 22 years ago and then maybe I wouldn't have so many unanswered questions.
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Summary: A Must For Adoptive Parents
Review: This book brought tears to my eyes a few times...tough issues to face. This lets me know that it is important to create a lifebook for my daughter. She will truly benefit. This book breaks it down and gives excellent examples. I know I can make a lifebook that will tell my daughter's story in terms she can understand.
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Summary: Buying my 2nd copy
Review: This is a great book - of course I recommended and loaned it to a friend who then recommended and loaned it to another friend. Now I'm buying a second copy, because I'm sure the first is being put to good use by someone else.
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Summary: Finally, a book with useful advice.
Review: We recently adopted our foster child (whom we've had since birth) and I was at a loss as to what types of things to put in her lifebook. This book was VERY helpful in giving information, tips and ideas of information that needed to be included. We now have our 2nd foster child (that we hope to adopt) and this book has made it much easier to get a jump-start on her lifebook.
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Summary: Finally, a book with useful advice.
Review: We recently adopted our foster child (whom we've had since birth) and I was at a loss as to what types of things to put in her lifebook. This book was VERY helpful in giving information, tips and ideas of information that needed to be included. We now have our 2nd foster child (that we hope to adopt) and this book has made it much easier to get a jump-start on her lifebook.
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