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“Adoption-isms”
Posted by Shaylee on May 24, 2010 at 7:15 am
One of the perks of working at Christian Homes & Family Services is getting to know precious adoptive families and their children. And one of the things that these precious adoptive families do is tell their children their story from day one. Each story looks different and is told in a unique way but nonetheless, each child knows and cherishes his story. As you can imagine, a bi-product of attempting to explain adoption to a very young child is what we’ll refer to as an “adoption-ism” for our purposes today.
a-dop-tion-ism – noun
A cute thing a child says regarding adoption.
Without further ado, here are some of the cutest things we’ve heard kids say regarding adoption:
When he was around 3 years old, our friends were getting their stuff together to adopt. Every time (and I mean every time) he would see them, he would ask in his finest Texas twang, “when you gonna go ‘dedopt’ that boy?” He was ready for a new friend and then was very disappointed when he first met his new friend and realized he was a baby, not a 3 year old playmate!
I also asked him one time if he knew where we adopted him. He thought for a minute and said “Southern Living” (I’m a Southern Living At Home consultant)!
The sweetest thing I remember was after I told “his story” at one of the Christian Homes Adoption Orientations a couple of years ago, he looked up at me and said “that’s a great story, Mom!”
“I love you and Dad so much, I don’t even feel adopted.”
“Mary and Joseph were sorta like Jesus’ foster parents, right Mom?” After suffering through an explanation of Mary as Jesus’ biological mother, and how she and Joseph were his parents while he was here on earth before he went back to heaven, she finished the conversation with…“That’s what I said, Mary and Joseph were sorta like Jesus’ foster parents!”
When discussing adoption with our daughter, we might say she may not look like either of us, but that’s O.K. because we know she was made in the image of God. One day as we drove by a group of people she said, “Look at those people smiling. I think they know they were made in the image of God!”
From Margaret, Director of Adoption Services:
Well, I think one of the funniest for me was when I was finishing a home study with a couple who were already parenting a child. Their son kept trying to open my briefcase and finally his mom asked him why. He said, “I think our baby is in there!” I can still hear his little voice making that announcement.
I have also had one child to think I was the birth mother of his soon to be baby sibling and said “You don’t look pregnant” (thank goodness for that!).
Do you have your own “adoption-isms” from sweet children in your life? Please share them with us!
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All of my kids are MINE, but 4 out of the 5 are adopted. A friend of ours was going to have a baby (biologically), and my kids wanted to know when they would be going to Texas to get their baby! Everyone knows babies come from Texas, right!?!
I love this stuff its so cool…
