Helping children understand adoption, the Mabel way
Me, reading aloud: “Every night at bedtime Mama told him the same story. ‘We chose you when you were a tiny baby because you had lost your first family and needed a new one. We liked your spots, and we wanted you to be our child.”
Rose: “You didn’t say the part about the garbage can.”
Me: “What?”
Mabel: “When I read it to her, to make it easier for her to understand, I say that Horace’s first family put him in a garbage can and his new parents took him out of the garbage can and kept him.”
July 5, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I’m laughing so hard at this, I’m afraid I might rupture something.
July 6, 2008 at 8:05 am
“To make it easier for her to understand.” I’m dying here. This is hilarious.
July 6, 2008 at 10:11 am
hahaha!
July 6, 2008 at 11:12 am
Very funny. My kids are always asking me to include some tid-bit their dad added in to the story. I need a lot of help to figure outthe missing bits, because he “reads it silly” all the time, changing as he goes.
July 6, 2008 at 5:44 pm
oh MY GOSH!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
July 6, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I can see the future–Mabel, Phd. Child Psychologist, specializing in the sensitive field of helping children coming to terms with their adoptions. . . She’d ROCK!
(This gave me my best laugh of the day. Thanks!)
July 8, 2008 at 1:40 pm
You should have warned me about this post before I read it in the middle of the Wilkinson center and lost it in front of everyone.
July 17, 2008 at 9:23 am
Here I am at work, catching up on your blog, and even though I’d already read this one it slayed me again. The poor people coming up to the desk must think I’m belittling their chubby bodies or something…
July 17, 2008 at 9:55 am
Yeah, if the clerk burst into laughter while I was walking into the fitness center I’d probably never come back. You need to wear a t-shirt that says “It’s not all about you” or something like that.