[BrandyHagz]

Oki Doki, I'm back.

My son is special needs - he is in a non-mainstreamed classroom, because being mainstreamed in JH was just to much for him (classes changing, etc...he can't deal with change at all).

So, he has one teacher (three aides) in his classroom (12 students).

I started with "Jerrett has a sister, she lives in ___ and her name is ___ we visit/communicate often, so if you hear him talk about a sister, that's who he's talking about" She kinda looked confused (I likely could have just left it at that...ya know, with all the mixed families/ parents who remarry and have other families) but I opted NOT to.

I said, "___ is 11, I placed her for adoption at birth. We've got an open adoption, so like I said, we see a lot of each other".

She was excited. She said she thought it was awesome and hopped that if she were to come visit during the school year, I could bring her by (they do a lot of student/family intereaction in his program), which I thought was nice.

I also explained the whole "Jerrett was also adopted by his father last December, so you might hear about that, he still intermixes "John" and "Dad" so - they are one in the same - we've let him drive the bus on this".

She was great with that too.

So, all in all, it was a great exchange. The teacher seemed interested in including M in the 'day to day' stuff that they do, which Jerrett always wants to do (Like family projects etc).

We'll see as the year goes on.

I've never had any problem with it in the past...