No Baby Pics

Tell the teacher it's an unfair project and suggest to the school district that these projects create unnecessary trauma to many children. Otherwise, simply use the pictures you have.

Judilyn, I would also recommend talking to the teacher and letting him/her know what is up. The teacher needs to be sensitive to differing family situations. I would try to go about it from a positive angle. Explain the situation and see what solutions the teacher comes up with. If you don't feel the solution is satisfactory try suggesting a modification or alteration to the whole project. Some suggestions might be: students could draw or so some other type or art work (cutting photos from magazines) depicting what they thought they looked like as a baby. Or, different portions of the class could bring pictures of themselves at different ages, making sure your dd was included in the 3 year old group. Good luck, Kalynn (teacher)

I agree with Lucyjoy - totally unfair project. My son and I ran into this problem two years ago. When I told his teacher that we did not have any pictures of him prior to age 2 1/2, she changed the project. The kids brought in recent pictures of themselves and then created pictures of what they thought they looked like as babies.

I have five children that I had fostered and later adopted. We've been through the life story project three times. The teacher who gave out the project told the kids that they could choose any picture they wanted as their "first" picture. This way it relieved any pressure on my or other adopted/foster children. Then they had to write their life story from their memories. That way there were no you have to have this or that information. Anyway, in all three instances the projects went well and the kids were proud of themselves. My youngest child however had to do a family tree. She was uncomfortable with this because even though we knew her bio family members we would have to add another section to the tree. Which finally we did and that project too also turned out. But here's a question I need help with. I am about to adopt my one year old foster child. I have no info on him as far as nationality. Does anyone have or had this problem when the feared what country did your ancestors come from project??? Any help here would be appreciated.

For everyones input. My adaughter is so "happy-go-lucky" that I am sure that she will manage this well with help from us. She will be in 3rd grade this year and at her school this project comes up in the 3rd grade. Miarra, you may want to take the question you asked about nationality and start a new thread with it, You may get more responses that way. Judilyn

Writing a life story fro memory is not o'kay with me either. My children remember very well what there life was like and should not have to share that with the school.