All Kinds of Families
My hope is that this group becomes a melting pot made up of lenses with stories and information about many types of families.
Adoptive Families, Step Families, Single Parent Families, Inter-racial Families, Inter-faith Families, Multi-Lingual Families, GLBT Parent Families, Only Child Families, Raising all girls, Raising all boys, Widely spaced siblings, Closely spaced siblings, Large Families & Childfree.
Atheist, Agnostic, Pagan, Buddhist, Catholic, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Latter-day Saints, Muslim and Unitarian Universalist Families. Homeschooling, Stay at home and Working parents. Attachment parenting, Holistic, and Vegetarian Families. Young or older parents. Families dealing with a disability or illness. Military Families and Expat Families. Have I missed yours? Let me know and I'll add it. :)
All families are welcome!
Contents at a Glance
Welcome to the group!
I enjoy discussing all of the many kinds of families with my daughter. I want her to grow to love and appreciate hers and understand that it's ok for our family to be unlike those of her friends. Because really, each is different from the next and special in their own right.
I would love to hear about your family and what makes it unique!
Important Notes:
* Please do not submit a lens that is only a list of websites or a sales pitch. This group is for lenses with lots of 'from the heart' written content about your family.
* This group is not a place for debate, therefore will not accept HeyMonkeyBrain lenses.
Family Sizes
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Only Children
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I'm an only child with an only child of my own by choice. When I close my eyes and imagine the perfect family size this is it. When I was in college I started a yahoo club (they were clubs back then) for onlies. That's been abandoned for a while but I...
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Living Large- Raising A Big Family
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People often describe me as "Wonder Woman" or "Super Mom", when most days it's probably closer to "Crazy Woman" and "Super Tweaker". I already know what you're thinking. You're right, it's NOT as...
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Sole Parenting
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Focusing on my life as a sole parent and letting you know it may be hard at times but its worth it.....Your Children Are Your World.....Your Children Are Your Life...... Your Children Love You, Your Children Respect You, Your Children Are Glad You Wer...
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How to Survive being a Single Dad
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I've been mulling around the concept for a blog/lens on parenting, from the perspective of a single dad, for quiet awhile and in fact I did create a blog called The Single Dad where I post the information I have posted here. I've found that...
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Purple Women Give Back
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Hey, glad you found us at Squidoo! Here you have a chance to participate in a broader community of people online who are interested in the topic of childfree. This is a sister site to the team blog and our chariable effort. You can help by recommendi...
Alternative Families
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Gay Parents and LGBT Families
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According to the 2000 U.S. Census, approximately 600,000 same-sex couples live in the United States and more than a third of these have at least one child. Of those LGBT parents, about half have two or more children. That means there are approximatel...
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Adults With LGBT Parents
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There are lots of us adults with LGBT parents floating around in the world. It's hard for us to find a place to fit in. Those of us who are straight don't quite fit into the straight world and we identify as part of the LGBT community, ev...
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Loving, Alternative Families - Lesbian & Gay Parenting
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Many criticize the changing family structure in today's society and condemn those families who do not play by their "one mom married to one dad" rules. I have created this lens to lend support to all families - especially those who fi...
Featured Lensmasters
Adoption
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Adoption Stories and other adoption links
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A few months ago I started writing my adoption story on a blog I call Ana's Miracle. Since then I've started poking around the web to find some other adoption stories and there are quite a few out there. However I couldn't really find a a place for...
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A Guide To Adoption
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This page is sponsored by Forever Parents, a supportive community for adoptive & waiting parents since 2002. Adoption Blog Adoption Forums Adoption Shop Adopting a child can be a joyful and sometimes scary experience. There are several different wa...
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Forever Family A Korean Adoption Story
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I would like to tell you all our family's adoption story. My niece and her husband adopted 2 beautiful children from South Korea. They have a 4 year old son and a 2 1/2 year old daughter. When all the fertility treatments failed including a cou...
Cultures
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Naming Multicultural Babies
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My wife and I recently had our first baby. My wife is Taiwanese and I am American. We are currently living in Taiwan. The baby was born in Taiwan and may spend a significant time of his childhood here. Eventually, however, we...
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Family Matters for Blended Families
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What is Important to You? If you answered, "Family Matters!" you've arrived at the right place. While I'll address many family issues, my lens will focus on tweens/teens and step-parenting. I will be adding more articles a...
Featured Lensmasters
Family Members
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RIP sweet angelic Zander
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Zander who was a 27 month old boy who had stage 3 cancer was the most angelic little survivor that I have ever seen. Through all his treatments, surguries, and all that he had to endure this sweet little angel still always had a smile on his face. He...
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Blanche Singer--My Grandmother and a True Hero
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My grandmother, Blanche Singer, was a true matriarch and leader of our family. I miss her every day and think about her often. Her fierce belief in family has shaped the way our family from immediate to third and fourth cousins think about family tod...
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Through The Eyes of A Mother
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Twinkle-twinkle little star, you're my angel yes you are... My baby was diagnosed Bells Palsy when she's only 1 year old. Her face became unsymmetrical, her smile limped, but still she's the most beautiful angel for me.
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Seniors On Line - The Tate Girls
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If you have sisters, I hope you have as much fun as we do! Separated by miles, we are in touch via the internet, instant messaging, e-mail and the telephone! Enjoy our lens about us! Recently on another forum, Jaguar Julie asked to see a photo of th...
Ages and Stages
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Surviving and Thriving With A Teenager In Your Life
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I Will Not Only Survive But Thrive My efforts to lead a rich, full life as a single parent have resulted in my studying and learning as much as I possibly can about parenting and successful parents. My intention is to share some of that insight with...
Learning Styles
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Pagan Homeschooling
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This is where you can learn how to homeschool your child as a Pagan. I will be reviewing websites, books, movies, and much more. Homeschooling is a growing community, and so is Paganism, now there is more and more every day for the Pagan...
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The Law of Attraction
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Learn how to use the Law of Attraction in your homeschool and how to teach your children about the Law of Attraction.
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Charlotte Mason Home Schooling
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Charlotte Mason (1841-1923) was a British author and educator who began what is now the modern home school movement during the 1880's. She was appalled by the poor education of the middle class by governesses with little or no training...
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Homeschool Happenings
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Looking for help in your homeschooling adventure? Then look no further. As a veteran homeschool mom of 7 with over 20 years experience homeschooling I can help. I will be sharing fun activities, advice to get you going and practical resources, such as...
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Home education on a Breton smallholding
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Home education allows each child to achieve their true potential without restraints from timetables, curriculums and enforced learning. Here on our Breton smallholding we have busy lives; looking after our animals, growing our own veg, running a sma...
Special Concerns
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Cochlear Implant - An Emotional Journey: How my Son got to Hear
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A cochlear implant (CI) is a system of internal and external devices that analyze and digitize sound into signals, stimulating auditory nerves in the cochlea and sending the results to the brain for interpretation. First developed in the early 1980s,...
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Raising a Child with a Cleft Lip and Palate
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Finding out that your child is going to be born with a cleft lip or palate is not the end of the world. We were very surprised when we found out that our youngest child has a bilateral cleft and palate. A child with a cleft lip or cleft palate is no...
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Artist Kim Dean - Selling Art For Autism & Mitochondrial Disease
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Welcome! My name is Kim Dean, I am a mother and artist. I have 3 boys who have a life threating disorder called Mitochondrial Disease. Two of my boys also have autistm spectrum disorders. My life is to advocate and support my children through researc...
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Looking at things Differently
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My son is nine years old. He is nonverbal and was diagnosed with Autism at the age of five. Life changed drastically for me when he was born. He was my first child and I didn't have a clue what I was doing. I learned quick. Just when I thought I had...
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Nutrition & Autism
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In May 2000, I took my youngest son, Benjamin, to the doctor to have his hearing tested. I suspected that he may have some type of hearing loss, because he was not developing as well verbally or socially as his older siblings did when...
Featured Lensmasters
Family Life
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Christmas Tales
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These are stories that I have had previously published about the joys of the Christmas season.
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Adventures in Dog Parenting
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This lens is the ongoing saga of being, at first, a reluctant dog parent and my transformation into one who embraces our dog as a full-fledged member of the family. Some of the stories have been previously published in local and regional media, and s...
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SINGLE PARENTING
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Ten Important Steps to raising successful children today. A journey through loss, pain and caring for two young children on my own. If for what ever reasons, you find yourself in this situation, my story may help you. For I did survive those years,...
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I'm young, single and a mommy... SO WHAT!?
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There are a lot of people in the world that are still stuck in the old days... Everywhere I go, I run into at least one person that looks at me crazy when they see me with my two daughters. I'm not married, I'm 24 and yes I am a mommy and guess wha...
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Step Families: A Survival Guide
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This Lens is dedicated to anyone navigating the often treacherous waters of blending families and taking on step parenting roles. Here you will find support and solace, tools and resources that are intended to help along the way and hopefully calm th...
Group Discussion
Greekgeek wrote...
What an awesome group, Christene! I don't have anything to offer here, I just appreciate this group (among so many good ones you've made).
GregGiordano wrote...
You have some excellent perspectives on the importance of families. Thank you for the lens.
The_Homeopath wrote...
What an awesome group of lenses here! My family is a religiously blended one, but I haven't actually written a lens about it, maybe I should before people start to wonder why in the world I have both Roman Catholic and Chanukah lenses! LOL
tashad17 wrote...
You have a great lens and I would love to have you check out mine. Take care and God Bless!
PaulRushing wrote...
Just added one of my lenses. It made LOTD and has inspired me to create more on this subject. I hope it is a good addition to the group here.
Paul
CultivateConnections_dot_com wrote...
This is a very nice grouping of lenses. Thank you for providing such a wide variety of categories including special needs, alternate types of families, and different learning styles!
AdoptionCoach wrote...
As a mom with biological and adopted kids, I have created a lens that helps parent these kids. I also offer International Adoption tips to those considering adoption.
karen_kokshoorn wrote...
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I love your lens. Its very interesting to find out about other families all over the world. We may all have different family values but overall we all do the same thing-We love and appreciate our family.Cheers to all.
http://www.squidoo.com/Soleparenting/
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KristenB wrote...
What an awesome lens! It's a great idea to create a space that honors all types of families! It's not very often that you find a space where family includes the LGBT community. Thank you.
TeenageRunaways wrote...
Great Lens
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ahedin22 wrote...
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SPF wrote...
This is such a great idea for a group. I think it is important for people to realize that families come in all shapes and sizes and that one type isn't necessarily "better" than another. In the end, it's all about love. Way to go!
GrillGirl wrote...
I saw your note on Raising Hellions (-: Thanks for stopping by there. It will be fun to read about other families.
safa40 wrote...
What a great lens. I hope to join your group. Best wishes and come visit me at www.squidoo.com/somebodybook...
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