Rituals, traditions and celebrations are an important part of every family. Adoptive families often enjoy creating their own set of traditions to celebrate the unique way their family was formed. Here are some ideas you may wish to incorporate into your family and ways to share your unique story.
- Write an article about your adoption story and submit it to your community newspaper;
- Conduct a naming ceremony that honors your child's culture and birthfamily. Invite your family and friends to share poems or wishes for your child at the ceremony;
- Offer to speak at your child's classroom on adoption;
- Donate adoption books for children to your neighborhood school;
- Ask your local TV station to feature a waiting child in your state;
- Invite adoptive families to your home for an adoption celebration and announce the event in your community newspaper;
- Ask your employer to feature a waiting child in the company newsletter or intranet site;
- Light a candle to honor your child's birthparents at special times of the year (birthmother's day, your child's birthday, holidays);
- Develop a family ritual to celebrate the unique way your family came together;
- Create a scrapbook with your child about their life.
- Have your child draw a picture on, "What does adoption mean to me?" and use the art for your holiday greeting cards.
Tips for writing your adoption story
Read other adoptive families stories of their adoptions, If you have an adoption story you would like to share, please send it to Azur Walters.
Do you have more ideas you liked to share? Please send them to us!
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