Product Description

After expressing their excitement at welcoming their new child home, the parents acknowledge that they missed significant events and milestones in the child's early years. The family then cheerfully looks forward to the experiences and `firsts' they will share and the memories they will make together. Throughout the book, the parents promise to love, nurture, and protect their child. Finally, the family reiterates their joy at welcoming their Forever Child into his or her Forever Family.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #271650 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-18
• Released on: 2007-01-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Review
A great way to help young children to understand what adoption and forever means in their lives. Parents and children will love to see the many firsts they will share while grieving the ones they missed. Fun illustrations and the rhyming cadence are sure to delight the preschool set. -- Regina M. Kupecky, L.S.W., co-author with Gregory C. Keck, PH.D. - Adopting the Hurt Child and Parenting the Hurt Child

Christine Mitchell truly captures the heart's desire of an adoptive parent welcoming an older child into their home. Written with warmth and understanding, Christine captures hope for the adoptive family and most of all, hope for the new child. Welcome Home, Forever Child will be a great book to keep on the night stand of every toddler or pre-school child coming home. -- Jayne Schooler - Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child

I truly enjoyed reading Welcome Home, Forever Child. Children will love the pictures and delightful rhymes. This book helps adopted kids to celebrate life and activities in their adoptive home while providing a framework to understand their infancy in another place. This book will be useful in helping children bond to adoptive parents. -- Foster Cline, M.D., Co-author with Jim Fay - Parenting with Love and Logic

This book provides reassurance to children and parents that a lifetime of important memories can be created regardless of the age at which a child joins his or her forever family. The rhymes and delightful illustrations will appeal to children from toddler age through middle childhood. -- Mary Hopkins-Best - Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft

From the Author
After adopting her younger child at the age of four from foster care, the author had difficulty finding appropriate adoption books for her daughter. She was especially looking for one that would make a special gift on Adoption Day. The vast majority of children's adoption books reflect infant adoptions, and often are not ideal for children who spent months or years in foster care or an orphanage. She was inspired to write Welcome Home, Forever Child for her daughter and for other families who adopted their children as toddlers or older.

From the Back Cover
"A great way to help young children to understand what adoption and forever means in their lives. Parents and children will love to see the many firsts they will share while grieving the ones they missed. Fun illustrations and the rhyming cadence are sure to delight the preschool set." - Regina M. Kupecky, LSW, co-author with Gregory C. Keck, PH.D. -Adopting the Hurt Child and Parenting the Hurt Child

"I truly enjoyed reading Welcome Home, Forever Child. Children will love the pictures and delightful rhymes. This book helps adopted kids to celebrate life and activities in their adoptive home while providing a framework to understand their infancy in another place. This book will be useful in helping chilfren bond to adoptive parents." - Foster W. Cline, M.D., co-author with Jim Fay - Parenting with Love and Logic and Parenting Teens With Love and Logic

"This book provides reassurance to children and parents that a lifetime of important memories can be created regardless of the age at which a child joins his or her forever family. The rhymes and delightful illustrations will appeal to children from toddler age through middle childhood." - Mary Hopkins-Best - Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft

"Christine Mitchell truly captures the heart's desire of an adoptive parent welcoming an older child into their home. Written with warmth and understanding, Christine captures hope for the adoptive family and most of all, hope for the new child. Welcome Home, Forever Child will be a great book to keep on the night stand of every toddler or pre-school child coming home." - Jayne E. Schooler - Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child and Journeys After Adoption

Customer Reviews

Perfect for any older-child adoption
The book Welcome Home, Forever Child is a wonderful children's book! This one is different from the children's books I've reviewed in the past, as this one is written particularly for children who are NOT adopted as infants. There is a whole different set of issues and questions that go along with a child who is adopted at an older age. They may remember experiences shared with birth and/or foster families, and have questions about how long they will be with their "new" family.

If you've adopted a toddler, preschooler, or older child, then this book is a MUST for your family! Author Christine Mitchell shares a story of love and the meaning of adoption in rhyming words that children will love to hear and easily understand. It will help create a bond with adoptive parents, and explain to the child what "forever" means.

The illustrations are so sweet. The author has used cats as the characters in the story. I love this because it makes the book appropriate for any type of adoptive situation- transracial, etc. The book starts out by talking about all the important milestones that may have been missed by the adoptive parents, but goes on to primarily focus on all the "firsts" that are to come, with a promise of being there to share in them. I am sure this book will be one that you will read over and over again with your child(ren).

C.Botello, Adoptive Support Services, Family Stress Center
Review sent in :Christine's book has captured into words and pictures the often hard to mention past of an older adopted child in a very warm and accepting manner. Acknowledging an adoptive child's beginnings is very important for the basis of self-esteem in the present and basic trust in the future. I love the simple yet straight forward manner Christine handles the loss of not being in their child's life from the beginning. As a professional in adoption support groups, I highly recommend this book. It will inspire both child and parent to work towards a healthy, honest and loving relationship. Cathy Botello, Adoptive Family Support Services, FSC

Wonderful lessons about family acceptance and love
I purchased this book for two friends who just went through international adoptions. The wonderful story of family love and moments to come brought tears to my eyes. The beautiful illustrations create a sense of warmth and love. The story reminds us all that raising children is a lifetime of shared experiences and moments.