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Note: I accidentally posted this to the wrong blog yesterday, so I am correcting the error this morning. My apologies to all of our readers.
I found a couple more neat links today that I didn’t know anything about. Here is one that I think older adoptive moms might find particularly useful. It is a message board at ivillage.com devoted entirely to older moms with younger children. There are tons and tons of threads on the board discussing just about every conceivable(bada boom bada bing) topic related to being an older parent. I didn’t even think to check and see if there was a thread on older adoptive parenting before I began this post, I’ll go back and check and see. If there isn’t one that has already been started then this would be the perfect place to start one.
I found this link to a series that I completely missed. Apparently back in September one of the national television networks ran a series entitled Not Your Mother’s Mother addressing issues related to older parenting. I could only find one of the articles online. Perhaps you will have better luck at tracking down the others. Click on the link above for the first in the series.
Finally, here is a link to a humorous page of two women that I have seen briefly on television before. I just stumbled across their website while surfing for interesting and fun stuff. They advocate a fearless approach to aging and their take on different topics from mothering to midlife to menopause and beyond is sometimes a hoot. Check them out.
Ummm. Ask me if I have even cracked open The Girls Who Went Away, yet. Go ahead. Ask me. No, I have not. Can you see the defensive maneuvering I’ve chosen to undertake instead? In layterms it is known as the RUN(!!!) defense. Run as far and as fast as you can. So, find something else to talk about, write about, read about. Interesting stuff. Informative stuff. FUNNY stuff. Anything except…the tuff stuff. Sigh. It’s hard sometimes, knowing myself as well as I do.
If you don’t have a clue what I am talking about please see Sandra’s posts on Ann Fessler’s book, The Girls Who Went Away. It is about the adoption experiences of young women and girls who became pregnant in the late 1960’s. In fact, I invite you to search the blogs here at www.adoptionblogs.com for other bloggers’ comments about the book. Those who have read it have been profoundly affected by it. Those of us who have only read about it have also been affected in some way or another. As you can see from this post, I…fall into the latter category. I am (slowly) working my way into the former category. Baby steps. Baby steps.
