First, We have hit a major savings milestone for the adoption. We finally have about 25% of the money saved to cover the remainder of the adoption expenses. This may not seem like alot, but when you are estimating 12,000+ to finish the adoption 25% is a pretty big milestone. So this is really good news.
So a big question running aroung the IA community right now is "What will you do if someone teases your daughter?" Well I have never seen a child that has gotten through school without being teased about something and I do not believe that I will handle my daughters situation any differently than I would a child that was not adopted.
A child will be too tall, overweight, skinny, short, ...etc. I spent my entire grade school existance being picked on because my parents did not have money.
So what will I do?
I will listen to her and try to explain why the other kids do this, but most importantly I will try to help her understand how special she is. I will also try to groom the self confidence that my mother helped me develop in my daughter so this will become an annoyance, not an earth shattering condition. So my reaction to others in the IA world is that this is a problem not related to IA, but one related to being a Kid and one that almost every child goes through at one point or another.
