by Bambi Wineland | May 8, 2019 | Adoption related issues, Heritage Travel
Hi families and friends,If you receive my newsletters or read my blog posts you likely have children or spend a lot of time with children. Adopted or not, I think the vast majority of my readers have one thing in common, the children we love. The children we want to...
by Bambi Wineland | Feb 28, 2019 | Adoption related issues
My good friend, Tiffany Clark, who lives in Columbus, GA is one of the most amazing moms I’ve ever met. She has three grown biological children, all in college — but then she embarked on what I’ll just call ‘the crazy’ … she adopted four beautiful children from...
by Bambi Wineland | Jan 3, 2019 | Adoption related issues
Same ole, same ole … we make New Year’s resolutions and break them within a few weeks. But I do believe one of the best ways to begin my year is with intentions. So I’m going to shift my thinking from resolute to intent. And I choose to do the best I can. In keeping...
by Bambi Wineland | Nov 2, 2018 | Adoption related issues, Our Children
Ongoing current events are causing undue amounts to stress and fear in our children. How to we combat it? My son came home from high school on Wednesday and told me about a kid who blew himself up with a bomb. I asked where he’d heard this and he said everyone was...
by Bambi Wineland | Aug 2, 2018 | Adoption related issues
Am I lovable? That’s a tough one to hear, huh? But creating intimacy and deeper relationships is a skill — and one we can learn. As difficult as this conversation has been, the discussion about intimacy and relationships is definitely the hardest for me....
by Bambi Wineland | Jul 26, 2018 | Adoption related issues
Continuing the discussion on how adoption impacts our children, let’s talk about attachment and bonding. As I said in the beginning of this conversation, “Although we use the terms loosely, there is an identifiable difference between ‘attachment’ and ‘bonding’....