Monday, November 14, 2016

Ben's school assignment

Ben is doing Child Development this year and his current assignment was a project "my birth".  He had a page of questions about his birth that we don't have many answers to.  Sam and I had some information for him, like his birth height and weight, but not much else.  It became apparent that this was very uncomfortable for him and so I went to talk to him later.  He said that it doesn't bother him that he's adopted, but he just didn't want to bring all the details up at school.  I think that's entirely understandable.  I emailed his teacher and asked if he could do an alternative assignment.  She was very understanding and just said they would give him a pass on this assignment.
It did give me an opportunity to talk to him about his adoption and I gave him our adoption book to look at.  Adoption rarely comes up with the kids.  They are completely open about it and their friends know.  I can see why Ben didn't want to discuss in a class setting though.  We are very lucky that they are both easy going and secure in our family.

1 comment:

tom said...

Whenyou say you are lucky B and M are very very very locky