http://oldsillybear.com/2004/06/30/if-you-love-someone-set-them-free/ Like everything else around here, it's fucked. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:16:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://oldsillybear.com/2004/06/30/if-you-love-someone-set-them-free/#comment-651 Hey, you! · No Cape Required Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:02:53 +0000 http://oldsillybear.com/?p=260#comment-651 [...] As any parent knows all too well, children don’t come with an instruction manual.  We depend on a learn as you go process, and grow into the role as parents as our children mature.  The simple fact is that when you adopt a child that is older, they are starting with a leg up on the parents, not to mention the other physical and emotional baggage that may already come with a child that is not a newborn/infant.  It takes special people to be able handle all these circumstances, people that always have th the”>e best interest of the child at heart, even when it breaks their own. People that see children and not “black” and “white” children. [...] [...] As any parent knows all too well, children don’t come with an instruction manual.  We depend on a learn as you go process, and grow into the role as parents as our children mature.  The simple fact is that when you adopt a child that is older, they are starting with a leg up on the parents, not to mention the other physical and emotional baggage that may already come with a child that is not a newborn/infant.  It takes special people to be able handle all these circumstances, people that always have th the”>e best interest of the child at heart, even when it breaks their own. People that see children and not “black” and “white” children. [...]

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