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Comments on: First Year Reflections https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/ Sun, 15 Sep 2013 03:37:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Melissa https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/#comment-85505 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 03:37:36 +0000 http://www.thecorkums.com/?p=5256#comment-85505 In reply to kim smith.

Thanks 🙂
You’re welcome 🙂
It’s all God.

]]> By: Melissa https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/#comment-85504 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 03:33:58 +0000 http://www.thecorkums.com/?p=5256#comment-85504 In reply to momofnine.

Isn’t it frustrating?!!? ASL was my “foreign” language in college.

]]> By: momofnine https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/#comment-85388 Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:01:47 +0000 http://www.thecorkums.com/?p=5256#comment-85388 Thank you for your honest writing! I am a mom to 9 – 4 bio and 5 adopted. We adopted when our children were infants so I don’t have the same experiences as you all. But my heart is right with you. God bless! By the way, one of our sons was born deaf and even though he has cochlear implants now and can hear comprehension is the struggle… always. I have often thought it is similar to comprehension issues in children with language barriers from other countries. Your experience seems to confirm my thoughts.

]]> By: kim smith https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/#comment-85209 Sat, 14 Sep 2013 01:06:27 +0000 http://www.thecorkums.com/?p=5256#comment-85209 Thankful for…
…your obedience, AND
…your acknowledgement that it is HARD.

]]> By: Melissa https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/#comment-85138 Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:47:06 +0000 http://www.thecorkums.com/?p=5256#comment-85138 In reply to Jeanine.

Jeanine, You are certainly not alone in stumbling. I wish more families would speak up, too!

]]> By: Jeanine https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/#comment-85107 Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:58:00 +0000 http://www.thecorkums.com/?p=5256#comment-85107 I just want to say THANK YOU for sharing the hard parts. So many times I have cringed at the thought of Dr. Purvis looking over my shoulder as I fail to be trustworthy to this child. So glad I am not the only one and realizing how desperately this needs to be shared with families BEFORE their kids come home. I was terribly unprepared for the level of hard we would experience. Only AFTER she was home were we given access to certain vital chat groups that would have been so helpful before she was home. Keep speaking up, sister!

]]> By: Melissa https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/#comment-84262 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:10:13 +0000 http://www.thecorkums.com/?p=5256#comment-84262 In reply to Erin.

Erin,
You are most definitely NOT alone! We’re even trainers for ETC and we royally mess up every day.

Melissa

]]> By: Erin https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/#comment-84231 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:41:31 +0000 http://www.thecorkums.com/?p=5256#comment-84231 Thank you so much for your post. I just found your blog. We are on year 5 with 3 children adopted at once from Foster Care. We also are on (or try our best to be) the Dr. Puvis trust based parenting train and find ourselves so frequently fall off the train head first in the to gravel of snarki-ness. Thank you for sharing that I’m not alone and your encouraging reminders!
Erin

]]> By: Melissa https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/#comment-84022 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:05:42 +0000 http://www.thecorkums.com/?p=5256#comment-84022 In reply to AmyE.

Amy,
I pray the ETC conference gives you the hope, encouragement, and energy you need to keep plugging away!
Blessing in return,
Melissa

]]> By: AmyE https://www.thecorkboardonline.com/2013/09/first-year-reflections/#comment-84009 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:19:24 +0000 http://www.thecorkums.com/?p=5256#comment-84009 Melissa – this is such an awesome post! I only have one child from a hard place in my home, and I relate to so much of what you shared. Thank you. I’m heading to Empowered to Connect this week … expecting to get my butt kicked and wanting to get back on the trust-based parenting train. I know I have moments of being on it, but so easy to get derailed with snarki-ness. Looking forward to your year 2. We are starting year 4. And still so hard. Blessings.

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