Gifts for Adoption
A successful adoption is often the result of years of intense planning and effort by the adoptive parents. When the new family member arrives, it's time to celebrate. Gifts are an appropriate way to welcome the new addition, and to share your friends' joy. Tailor your gifts to the circumstances of the adoption -- for example, if it's a domestic or international adoption -- and to the age and needs of your friends' child.
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Travel-Related Gifts
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The Do-it-Yourself Gifts website suggests that if your friends are adopting internationally, unused air miles, travel gifts like a voltage converter, currency-exchange calculator and travel journal, or a photo album and a gift certificate to develop photos make practical gifts when they go to meet their new child. If you're presenting a group gift, a gift certificate to a photography studio, once they come home, is also a possibility.
Custom Gifts
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Personalized books for a young child, telling the story of his adoption, are a thoughtful gift. Engraved charms or necklaces with captions like "Gotcha" and "Welcome Home" are also popular adoption gifts. There are customizable adoption albums available for your friends in which to preserve their special moments.
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Bilingual Books and Music
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If the adopted child is old enough to speak and is from a country with a different language than that of her new parents, bilingual story books and music are a practical gift. These will help your friends bridge the language gap, and give their new child a bit of reassuring continuity in her new home.
Sibling Gifts
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If the adoptive child has older brothers or sisters, they may be feeling a little left out in all the excitement, suggests the Do it Yourself Gifts website. It wouldn't do any harm to include the new child's brothers and sisters in your gift-giving; your friends will appreciate your thoughtfulness.
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References
- Photo Credit Happy mother with her son series image by Alexey Stiop from Fotolia.com
