Another Adoption Story - How I Told My Son
There are many suggested methods on how to tell a child about his adoption. Based on others and our own family experiences, it is a proven fact that not telling a child about his adoption brought about dire consequences for everyone involved especially if the truth is found out from people other than parents. In the case of my aunt, she found out when she was already 10 years old from well-intentioned relatives who wanted to help her parents resolve her habitual lying when she got caught doing something she shouldn't, like playing hookey from school, for example. Needless to say that was the start of her years of rebellion. I heard other "horror" stories so when the time comes, although I never really thought about it, I knew that I will tell my child the truth. My turn came around the time when my son was around 4 years old when out of the blue while playing in my bed, he reached out to my stomach and said..."I came from here". My initial reaction was to ...