Telling your child about their adoption
Well, DH and I have started the paperwork for our homestudy (we're adopting from Vietnam) and came across these questions:
At what age do you think you should tell your child about their adoption?
How do you plan to explain to the child about their adoption?
My thought was that you start at a young age (assuming you're adopting an infant or toddler), and keep things simple. Simplify the story for whenever they ask. By children's story books that explain adoption on a child's level. Am I on track with this? Any suggestions on this, ages, books, etc?
Leah
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