It’s National Adoption Awareness Month!* I can think of no better way to honor it than to listen to an adoptee, especially one who is also raising an adoptee.
We always talked about adoption. It was normalized in our household.
Allison Olson in Ep 309 of Adoption: The Long View
Our guest was adopted and grew up in the closed adoption era and is now an advocate of open adoption. As she tried to figure out how to parent in a way she herself was not parented she was dismayed by the lack of early reader books about open adoption. When she didn’t find what she needed, she decided to fill that gap.
In so doing, children’s book author Allison Olson is set on changing the adoption narrative from the “lucky” child to the “loved” child.
How to talk open adoption with your young child ? Here are practical tips for you — and a storybook to go with them.
* This is why you’ll see adoptee voices represented here all month, including Allison’s. Subscribe so you get notified when each amazing guest essay is published.
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