by SurrogacyGuideBlog | Sep 4, 2018 | Parenting
Could this classic discipline technique actually make the situation worse? Learn what experts recommend, including a new and improved five-step technique for giving time-outs. Time-out certainly sounds like a brilliant fix: A child spends a few minutes sitting alone,...
by SurrogacyGuideBlog | Sep 4, 2018 | Surrogacy
When intended parents are exploring the possibility of surrogacy and before they embark on a surrogacy journey, we get a lot of questions around how parents and surrogates are matched. We also get a lot of questions around how healthy, happy parent and surrogate...
by SurrogacyGuideBlog | Sep 4, 2018 | Parenting
My daughter just turned 8, and for a long time I tried to treat September 11 like any other day. However, I don’t know if that’s really possible anymore. As parents, we should be the ones deciding when and how our kids learn about 9/11, but the fact is...
by SurrogacyGuideBlog | Sep 4, 2018 | Adoption, Parenting
The Dreaded Family Tree Assignment stirs anxiety in the hearts of many adoptive and foster families. We worry that our kids will feel different, or that they will feel pressured to overshare. And our hearts really break if our beautiful child does not have some of the...
by SurrogacyGuideBlog | Sep 4, 2018 | LGBTQ
For parents who use donors to conceive, an unexpected challenge of the process can be explaining the situation to the child. Here, experts offer tips and provide sample scripts for talking to kids about their donors. Four years ago, my partner and I were sitting...
