After writing today’s post I realized where the comments were likely to head, so I’m going back to the top of the post and adding this: Today’s post is not about discussing your beliefs, my beliefs, or any religious tenets. It’s about how an adopted child sees this phrase.
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I am going to caution, [...]

I do not believe that TwinkleToes had ever attached to anyone while in the orphanage. And being that she was almost two years old at adoption, the attachment literature would tell us that attachment with her should have been a nightmare.
But really, it wasn’t hard at all. She did not attach right away, of [...]

Most of the attachment literature out there is aimed at the child who has never formed a really healthy attachment to anyone before, and who has to be taught about healthy attachment. Those books have you pretty much forcing the issue – sleeping with a child who would prefer to sleep alone, holding or wearing [...]

So, now that I’ve talked about all of the things we did for GG, and the things we are doing for TT – I’d like to say it wasn’t, and isn’t, as bad as it sounds when it is all written out.
Other than the sleep issues at night, those first years with GG were magical. [...]

I talked yesterday about how GlitterGirl’s sensory issues were different from TwinkleToes’ sensory issues. If you’ve missed the last couple of posts on this, you may want to play catch up. I didn’t intend for this to be a series when I started, but it’s kind of turned into a series:

The NSN Misnomer
Joint Compression
TwinkleToes’ Sensory [...]

Yesterday I talked about the things we’re doing for TwinkleToes, the sensory activities we do for her. To show a little of the difference in the way different types of sensory issues must be treated, tomorrow I’ll talk about what we used to do for GlitterGirl, who had the completely opposite type of sensory issues, [...]