What they DON'T tell you on prep groups!

This is a blog of the things we have learned as a new adoptive Mum and Dad to three children under the age of five. For 'Mum' you can read 'Dad' and 'parent'. It is also a record of some of the things no-one told us on the prep groups. Some of it is what children get up to in general and some of it is adoption-specific. Regardless, it should be an interesting read for any parent, prospective and adoptive. Feel free to add your comments, which I shall publish.

1 Jan 2011

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...becoming a different person; suddenly you are calling your husband 'Daddy', your Dad 'Granddad', your Mum 'Granny', your sister 'Auntie', your brother 'Uncle' and you are calling yourself your Mum.  At first it's funny, and you have a laugh correcting yourself or the children correct you and they think it's funny too.  It is also unnerving because you lose your identity overnight.  Birth parents lose their identity slowly as the child learns to speak, you lose it instantly.
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