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

At Last: The Conclusion to the Heritage Report Odyssey!

Hooray! Meg did her Heritage Report on Korea! For those of you wondering what the big deal is, well, maybe it isn’t that big a deal…but I’m hoping her change of subject signals pride in being Korean and willingness to acknowledge her adoption. When I last wrote about this project, Meg said she was doing it on Canada. She began to draw the Canadian flag, but I put off helping her research the rest of the report in the hope she’d change her mind and do Korea. She changed her mind four days before the report was due, but in … Continue reading