[melissa_bear003]

My children at home are 10, 3.5, and 2. Dh and I are planning to adopt via CPS, and are looking at preschool age, roughly...as young as 2.5, as old as 5 as a reasonable age range. Part of it is that due to an injury, an infant would be very difficult for me to manage 1 armed. The other consideration is, we are homeschoolers, and figure that it would be one less transition if the child had not yet begun school.

I'm wondering what experience or advice you can give...we've been talking and wondering if it wouldn't be better to wait until our 2 yo is 3, or even 4, so that she can better understand some of the behaviours that may occur when a child is welcomed into our home and making that transition. I'm thinking at her age now, the potential temper tantrums, etc would scare the crud out of her, but in a year or so, she would understand an age appropriate explaination (basing this on what my 3.5 yo is able to understand)

Anyone?