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Author: Christine Mitchell
Rating: Votes: 1888
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Price: $14.95
After expressing their excitement at welcoming their new child home, the parents acknowledge that they missed significant events and milestones in the child’s early years. The family then cheerfully looks forward to the experiences and ‘firsts’ they will share and the memories they will make together. Throughout the book, the parents promise to love, nurture, and protect their child. Finally, the family reiterates their joy at welcoming their Forever Child into his or her Forever Family.
Social workers, therapists, support groups, and CASA volunteers will want to recommend this treasure to their clients and add it to their own libraries. Welcome Home, Forever Child will also make a very special keepsake gift for a child upon joining his or her new family, or finalizing the adoption, or the anniversary of either event.
Reviews:
This book has been endorsed by leading adoption and parenting experts.
“A great way to help young children to understand what adoption and forever means in their lives. Parents and children will love to see the many firsts they will share while grieving the ones they missed. Fun illustrations and the rhyming cadence are sure to delight the preschool set.” – Regina M. Kupecky, L.S.W., co-author with Gregory C. Keck, PH.D. – Adopting the Hurt Child and Parenting the Hurt Child
“I truly enjoyed reading Welcome Home, Forever Child. Children will love the pictures and delightful rhymes. This book helps adopted kids to celebrate life and activities in their adoptive home while providing a framework to understand their infancy in another place. This book will be useful in helping children bond to adoptive parents.” – Foster Cline, M.D., Co-author with Jim Fay – Parenting with Love and Logic and Parenting Teens with Love and Logic
“This book provides reassurance to children and parents that a lifetime of important memories can be created regardless of the age at which a child joins his or her forever family. The rhymes and delightful illustrations will appeal to children from toddler age through middle childhood.” – Mary Hopkins-Best – Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft
“Christine Mitchell truly captures the heart's desire of an adoptive parent welcoming an older child into their home. Written with warmth and understanding, Christine captures hope for the adoptive family and most of all, hope for the new child. Welcome Home, Forever Child will be a great book to keep on the night stand of every toddler or pre-school child coming home.” – Jayne Schooler, adoptive parent and author of several books on adoption, including Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child and Journeys After Adoption
About the Author:
Author and illustrator Christine Mitchell lives in California with her husband and two children. Her younger daughter joined the family at age of four, and was adopted from foster care.
Wanting to celebrate the adoption and reassure her daughter of her permanent place in the family, Ms. Mitchell searched for a special book as an adoption finalization gift. With most children’s adoption books reflecting infant adoptions, she was disappointed by the lack of picture books for children adopted as toddlers or older. Ms. Mitchell was inspired to write and illustrate Welcome Home, Forever Child, which offers children a loving message of reassurance and permanence.
Ms. Mitchell recently completed a guide for parents and educators to assist with school assignments that can be challenging and troubling for adopted children. This project arose after Ms. Mitchell’s older daughter was assigned family-based projects that her younger daughter and many adopted children would be unable to complete.
The author has two other children’s books in progress, both geared towards children adopted beyond infancy. “I have always enjoyed writing and drawing,” says Ms. Mitchell, “but that part of me was put on the back burner for
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