Sunny Says
I was volunteering to help teach a class this weekend.
The plan was to discuss the meaning of the words "community" and "diversity". The main teacher asked the kids for some examples of diversity, then gave some of her own examples.
"There many kinds of families, too! Some families have a mom and a dad, or two dads, or two moms."
Sunny raised his hand (he's always the classroom eager beaver). "Yes, Sunny?"
"I have THREE moms, but one died."
"Okay, thanks for sharing. Let's talk about other kinds of diversity..."
The teacher handled it well. I do vaguely wonder what people think when he says stuff like that. He's just being his usual straightforward and confident self, of course, but it must be rather confusing.
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Even though it might make other people slightly uncomfortable, I think it's good that Sunny is so matter-of-fact about it. Slugger is, too. Last year, after Slugger broke his hand, we went to go see his doctor. Knowing our situation, the doctor said something well-intentioned (but stupid) like "it must be nice to have a mom, now." Slugger replied "I have eight moms."
I thought it was awesome.
We experience something similar (and Ky is much older) when it comes to siblings...she'll talk about her sisters but since I don't have any other kids and they don't live near us, sometimes necessary (to make have it make sense) context information is missing and people get slightly confused. Parenting through adoption is nothing if not interesting!LOL
One of my sons, who has 8 bio-siblings got some stupid comment the other day at the daycare. One daycare lady said, "Oh, you must be so happy now that you have a sister and a brother. Isn't it fun?" He looked at her like she was nuts and backed away slowly.
What a great story! I'm surprised the teacher handled it so well.
My friends are going through the adoption process right now. They are adopting a boy from Ethiopia.
They have gotten their forms done through myadoptionforms.com. That was easy. Now they're just waiting for the rest of the process.
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