Parent Heritage Presentation: Smoothing the Way

I had signed up to do a presentation in Meg’s class on Korea. I planned to do this no matter what country Meg chose to write about in her Heritage Report. Last year some of her classmates had distressed her by asking questions about adoption and about her “real mom”. I responding by reading some adoption books to her class, but this year I wanted the presentation to be on Korea and not to put Meg on the spot about adoption. I went to talk to our school principal, whose children, now in college, had also been adopted from Korea. … Continue reading