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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Referral for Adoption?
Has anyone ever written a referral letter for a couple to adopt? I'm in the middle of writing one and was wondering if there are certain things I should avoid? For example, is it ok to discuss how much they've wanted a child? I don't know what things will look good and what would look bad. It makes me discuss their weaknesses also. I always hated this question in job interviews and am having a hard time to discuss this as well. I've written one of their weaknesses as not having any immediate family in the area but that this weakness is supported with their strong network of friends in the area and their family's willingness to travel should they need further support. Any tips/advice would be wonderful. I feel so much pressure!
Re: Referral for Adoption?
I think that's a great explanation of a weakness!
I googled and here's some sample letters
http://www.lettersofrecommendation.net/
http://forums.adoption.com/guatemala-adoption/103737-need-sample-reference-letters.html
Ever watch Friends? There's an episode where Joey uses a thesaurus to make his writing "smarter" when he writes a referral letter for Chandler and Monica.
ETA: You can always run the letter past the adoptive parents, can't you? Make sure that they like what you said before you send it?
(read it. you know you want to.)
anderson . september 2008
vivian . february 2010
mabel . august 2012