First Coast Chinese Children's Waiting Families Meeting

If you have a local group of Waiting Families, we recommend attending. Our past meeting agenda featured four Dad's with Chinese daughters. They discussed the paper chase, the trip to China, their first experience with attachment and all other post-adoption challenges. Two had used sign language as a way to communicate early with their daughter's. We are convinced this helps with attachment and adjustment. We're equally convinced that signing helps to reduce frustration, both for parent and baby, brought on by not being able to communicate verbally. We have already purchased several tools to use like flash cards and "Baby Signs" (board books and DVD set). The "Baby Signs" are sold by Discovery Toys. We enjoyed hearing from the four Dads' and visiting with Kim and Joel (Ruby is Coming). See you all next month!