Customer Reviews

The Forever Child: A Tale of Lies and Love

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I have been a therapeutic foster parent for 7 years. This is one of my favorite books to share with the children who come into my home. The storyline gives children a safe way to explore all the feelings and behaviors they experience. It has also been a wonderful tool for showing the other children in the home how and why some children behave like they do. I highly recommend this book to any parent!

Being an adoptive parent of older children and working in the field of adoption, I found this book disturbing. The premise is good, but the story with content as "Parents who knew not how to parent brought their virtueless children to the fairy sisters to have their magic bestowed upon them. and ... recently found a tiny girl child of about five abandoned in the forest by neglected and uncaring parents." How many more ways can you tell a child they are worthless and I don't believe that is what really needs to be conveyed to a child. This is not a book I would ever recommend to anyone and I will assume the series is just the same.

If you have a child or know of a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder this is a great book. It created a wonderful talking point with my two RAD kids who identified with it far more than with other publications we have purchased in the past

Having read other reviews, I was really excited about this series. I have three children adopted from the foster care system. What I found is that each of these books would have played into my children's fairy tale view of the world, where all things are given to children without any effort or cooperation on the child's part. Also, the authors seem to recommend no consequences and a love-conquers-all approach to raising attachment disordered children. Oh, if only that would work! It doesn't.