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Join Laura Khoury, an adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, discuss adoption.

Introduction to Allison and Laura
Laura Khoury an adoptive mother of two and children's adoption book author will tell us about adoption conversations happening in her household
Join Allison Olson an award-winning children's adoption book author as she discusses how being an adoptee prepared / impacted her as an adoptive parent.
Join Laura Khoury and Allison Olson, children's adoption book authors, as they discuss how to handle the "your child is lucky to have you" statement as an adoptive parent. It comes up so often and even crept into our conversation, so we wanted to sha
As an adoptee, an adoptive parent, and a children's adoption book author hopeful adoptive parents often reach out with questions. Listen to the part II version of this discussion where Allison answers her additional advice she gives to perspective/wa
As an adoptive mom and a children's adoption book author, Laura often gets asked questions from hopeful adoptive parents. Listen in for some of her advice.
Children's book author Allison Olson walks through how her book Surrounded by Love: An Open Adoption Story differs from other children's adoption books currently on the market.
Children's author Laura Khoury explains how her book The Tale of Mallory Mouse differs from other children's adoption books on the market.
Children's book authors Laura Khoury and Allison Olson talk about why they wrote their children's books on adoption. Allison in an adoptee and adoptive parent. Laura is an adoptive parent of two girls. Listen as they walk through why they were inspir
Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, adoptee and adoptive parent, discuss adoption. In this clip Allison shares her own story of adoption when she was young.
Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, in a discussion around adoption. Allison Olson walks through when she wrote the story Surrounded by Love: An Open Adoption Story.
Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, adoptee and adoptive parent, as they discuss adoption. This clip is Laura explaining her own adoption story of what brought her and her family to adoption.
Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, in a discussion around adoption. In this clip, Laura walks through when she wrote her took The Tale of Mallory Mouse: From Foster Care to Adoption.
In this clip Laura talks about her side of her youngest daughter's adoption story.
In this clip Laura talks about how she found the illustrator for her book The Tale of Mallory Mouse: From Foster Care to Adoption.
In this clip Allison talks about how she found her illustrator for Surrounded by Love: An Open Adoption Story.
In this clip Allison talks about her experience and around how she became an adoptive parent.
Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, as they discuss adoption. In this clip Allison talks about her experience and around raising both a biological child and an adopted child.
Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, as they discuss adoption. In this clip Laura talks about her experience and around raising two adopted children with very different adoption stories.
Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, as they discuss adoption. In this clip Allison talks about her fears of writing a children's adoption book as an adoptee.
Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, as they discuss adoption. In this clip Laura and Allison discuss some of the common strange things people say to adoptive parents. If you have more that you wa
Join Laura Khoury, adoptive mom of two, and Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, as they discuss adoption. In this clip Laura and Allison have a raw discussion around the trend of adoption saviorism.