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Author: AdoptionToLife
An adoptive mother of a curious kiddo, full of spirit and sass, tells her tales of homeschooling, fostering, and raising children with special needs.
Tosha and Janelle hash out topics of intentional motherhood and being confronted with the fears, limits, and bias we have… and those we didn’t know we had. Being an intentional autism parent means having faith to think beyond what is seen in the “now.” Recording date: April 30th, 2020.
Mother’s Day was coming up. “It’s supposed to be MY day, now!” This thinking was wrong, wrong wrong. We should never consider our role as an adoptive parent to be a “replacement” for a biological parent.
When you boil it all down to this gut-checking moment, what do you learn about yourself and your heart? Building a family through adoption is not a task to approach lightly. May love and wisdom lead you: together, not separately. (VIDEO INCLUDED)
I’d thought… one day, when the “story” is done being written… I could help the next person. Encourage them. Strengthen them. And so on. But now, what I’ve learned is that EVEN in the middle of the chapter… even when we are about to turn a page that will surprise us all… my story matters NOW.
Stomach pangs from hunger were familiar. Emptiness was familiar. …But I couldn’t feed him. Mealtimes still felt like hostage negotiations; “Take a bite AND chew, and we’ll fly in your escape helicopter filled with bags of cash!!”
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Author’s new book receives a warm literary welcome. A 5-Star rating was issued to the non-fiction release, which is sure to take reader’s down roads they never imagined they would go.
Wendy and Megan of the parenting podcast “The Momologues” ask Janelle Molony about navigating adoptions, school and life with her son. The women digest common struggles to advocate for special needs and sorting out what might be “different” versus basic “boy-ness.”
Prospective foster and adoptive families might want to read this and ask themselves, “Am I made of the stuff that made it possible for Janelle and Ryan to persevere?” – Dr. P. Leslie Herold