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.
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29 Jan 2011

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...looking back at introductions photos and seeing how much they have grown in eight months.  Then feeling really sad that they are already growing up so fast
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3 Jan 2011

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...putting the children in the most awful clothes that their birth parents bought for them and willing them to put on a sudden growth spurt, because the second they grow out of them they are going straight to the charity shop - in fact I might just burn them!  The clothes not the kids!  (We are keeping one outfit each for their memory boxes.)  Of course, you can't just buy them a whole new wardrobe the day they move in, apart from the sizeable cost, they need the safety and comfort of things they know - even if 'Essex Girl' wouldn't be seen dead in them.  God, they look so chavvy lol
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