[akcskye]

I don't "offer it up" like a badge of glory, but when my kids first came home, I DID explain to their new teachers that they were adopted so if there were ANY issues regarding the children's behavior, the line of communication was open and to contact me...anytime, day or night.

I guess it was part of "covering the bases" for me...because my kids moved home for good 2 days before school started...well, school actually started the day they moved home, but it took all day to get them home, then the next day, we had to keep them out because we had to enroll them, do checkups, etc.

The kids were total strangers to us in all reality, so in contrast to what Sadie said, I didn't want any behaviors that would be easily explainable from an adopted kid to be misconceived as abuse or neglect issues from a biological home.

I can handle teachers and pre-conceived notions about adopted children...I can get that nipped in the bud...what I didn't want was an anonymous call to DHS about the kids when they were not finalized, when the fact they were adopted could have explained a lot of whatever it was they were having trouble with had the teacher chosen to bypass family and go straight to DHS.

Of course, everyone out there knows they were adopted now (and thankfully, both of my kid's teachers had been touched by foster care and adoption personally so KNEW what to look for), and now the the "new" has LONG since worn off...and the kids never did act out...they fit right in...so we were blessed all the way around.