Wholehearted Parents
Where great parents go for hope, advice, and inspiration!!!
Where great parents go for hope, advice, and inspiration!!!
Wholehearted Parents
Where great parents go for hope, advice, and inspiration!!!
Where great parents go for hope, advice, and inspiration!!!
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Family is the nucleus of civilization.
Ariel and Will Durant
Ariel and Will Durant
[The family's] resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community.
Ben Silliman
Ben Silliman
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine
Michael Levine
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theo. Hesburgh
Theo. Hesburgh
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
Tenneva Jordan
Tenneva Jordan
To become a father is not difficult, but to be a father is.
Unknown
Unknown
About Richard and Jennifer Jarman
We married in 1999. After a series of events, we decided to adopt. (Scroll down to the side bar links on the left to get adoption information for the United States.) When we started the process, we thought we'd adopt an older child.
We went to meet a 19-month-old little boy. We were greeted by the foster mom, holding the tiniest three-week-old baby girl we had ever seen (she weighed just 4 lbs. 6 oz.). She had just been delivered to the foster mom's home. She was the new sibling, and the two children were now a “package deal.” Well, we fell in love with them!
Sam and Grace were on their way home--as soon as the paperwork was all finished, that is. Abigail was a little surprise. She was born the day after Gracie's 2nd birthday. No one had any idea she was on her way--not even the social workers. She came home when she was one week old. Our third child, but our first newborn!
Richard has degrees in History and Theology. He has a wide range of experiences working with such industry companies as Bunting Bearing and Maxon Lift Corporation. He worked in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He also started a non-profit Christian outreach ministry in Southern California.
Jennifer taught in the Child Development field for 20 years. Over half of those years were at community colleges in the Los Angeles Community College District. She also has experience as a seminar presenter and consultant with Success from the Start--an organization that trains parents to prepare their children for kindergarten.
We went to meet a 19-month-old little boy. We were greeted by the foster mom, holding the tiniest three-week-old baby girl we had ever seen (she weighed just 4 lbs. 6 oz.). She had just been delivered to the foster mom's home. She was the new sibling, and the two children were now a “package deal.” Well, we fell in love with them!
Sam and Grace were on their way home--as soon as the paperwork was all finished, that is. Abigail was a little surprise. She was born the day after Gracie's 2nd birthday. No one had any idea she was on her way--not even the social workers. She came home when she was one week old. Our third child, but our first newborn!
Richard has degrees in History and Theology. He has a wide range of experiences working with such industry companies as Bunting Bearing and Maxon Lift Corporation. He worked in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He also started a non-profit Christian outreach ministry in Southern California.
Jennifer taught in the Child Development field for 20 years. Over half of those years were at community colleges in the Los Angeles Community College District. She also has experience as a seminar presenter and consultant with Success from the Start--an organization that trains parents to prepare their children for kindergarten.