Parenting Your Adopted Older Child: How to Overcome the Unique Challenges and Raise a Happy and Healthy Child

Rating:
Summary: Food for thought
Review: The book contained chapters dealing with a variety of issues involving older child adoption, including ADHD, FAS, RAD, self esteem, creating a family, and other issues. She offered suggestions and solutions about how to best deal with these behaviors.

My one complaint involves the scenarios she outlined to explain each point. In them, she never resolved the conflicts she creates. I would have liked to see how those solutions might fit those scenarios.

The book offered me much food for thought as I considered undertaking an older child adoption.

Rating:
Summary: Food for thought
Review: While my wife and I have not looked far and wide, it seems that much of the non-academic adoption literature is very "adopt at birth"-focused.

McCreight's book is a rarer find, focusing on the differences older-child adoption presents. It is also rare in its presentation: wonderful, bulleted recommendations in bullet form, covering all of the major behavioral problems adoptive parents might run into. (Easy to look up in crisis situations!)

Lastly, McCreight has all the best street-cred: she's both a child therapist and an adoptive parent of seven.

I'd highly recommend this text for any prospective or current adoptive parent of an older child.