Toddler Adoption The Weaver's Craft

"Toddler Adoption" is a resource designed to help adopting parents and placing professionals involved in adoptions of children in the unique developmental stage from ages one to three, usually referred to as toddlerhood. Books focusing on parenting an adopted infant, and those written for the special needs adopters of school-aged children contain little of relevance for those adopting a toddler. These children are up on their feet and walking, and have achieved cognitive growth providing a store of remembered life experiences with caregivers and age-peers to whom they have probably become attached, but the language and cognitive skills of toddler-aged children are still too unsophisticated to allow a toddler to make use of the therapies that can help smooth transitions and deal with losses. "Toddler Adoption" fills this gap admirably. "Toddler Adoption" is essential reading for anyone considering the adoption of a boy or girl falling within the one to three year age bracket.Hopkins-Best, Mary is the author of 'Toddler Adoption The Weaver's Craft', published 1998 under ISBN 9780944934210 and ISBN 0944934218.