Lifebook Writing Guide for Asian Adoptees

This e-book will help you write a tender, informative lifebook for your Asian-born child! Profits will be donated to a charity whose mission is to improve the lives of orphans. Asia Lifebooks is an online community and resource group for adoptive parents that are making lifebooks. All parent- members of the group are writing and assembling lifebooks for children of Asian descent. Waiting families are welcome to ask questions and use the Lifebook Writing Guide to prepare for their adoption. NOTE: Each chapter of this e-book is a PDF file. There are no digital images included with this e-book. If you don't have a PDF document viewer, one is available for free from adobe.com. This kit contains the following 50 items: Chapters 1. Preparing to write a lifebook, Reasons to make a lifebook 2. Raising adopted children, Journaling a lifebook 3. Choosing a Voice 4. Family or Child-centered lifebooks, Journaling tips, Questions adopted kids ask 5. Let’s get started: Gather, Sort, and Organize 6. Descriptive Journaling: Writing Lesson #1 7. Introduction page – the first page of the lifebook 8. Birth page 9. Name page 10. Country of Birth 11. Province or local area of birth 12. Customs and Traditions 13. Fun Family Customs 14. One-child policy (China) 15. General Reasons for separation/relinquishment (Korea) 16. Birthparents 17. General Tips for writing about birthparents and abandonment 18. Abandonment and finding ads (China) 19. Relinquishment (Korea) 20. Helping children understand separation from birth families 21. Sensitive and Private information 22. Orphanage/ Foster Home page 23. Optional Writing Styles –Writing Lesson #2 24. Writing from the Heart-Writing Lesson #3 25. Paperwork for adoption 26. Waiting 27. Matching 28. Referral 29. Leaving to meet your child 30. Korean Escorts 31. Adoption Day page 32. Promise page 33. Coming home 34. Forever Family 35. Toddler versions 36. Lifebooks for Teens 37. Ethnicity 38. Incorporating Religion into lifebooks 39. Visual Tips 40. Waiting Family Tips 41. Photo composition 42. Things to purchase while traveling 43. Adoption Day questions (English) 44. Adoption Day questions translated (Chinese) 45. Adoption Day questions translated (Korean) 46. Writing Lifebooks for Special Needs children 47. Writing about Tough Stuff and considerations for older special needs children 48. Abandonment of an older child 49. Disruption or Dissolution of an adoption and lifebooks 50. About the Authors

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