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I am a FB fan of the magazine Adoptive Families, they just posted this article:
[url=http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=2010]Adoption - Adoptive Families[/url]
It made me tear up thinking about little Mark hearing his brother say that his skin needed to be changed. I liked Dad's reply, BUT it didn't address what Mark must have been thinking about his skin color. The ending was sweet, but it too didn't address with Mark why there is nothing wrong with his color.
How would y'all handle a conversation like this???
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It seems to me that this person obviously needed the awareness classes. At least she got some education, but even from my limited experience, I'd say she still has a way to go. What about responding to Nate's comment with, "Why? I would rather change my skin to be like his, if we had to be the same. I really like that color and then I wouldn't get sunburned so much. It is too bad that we can't change our skin color, like people do with their hair. It might be fun. But we don't have to be the same color anyway." Eyes are small. Skin is big. Kids aren't dumb. Kids do, however, do magical thinking and the idea of everyone changing their skin color on a whim would seem funny and serve to take the negative spotlight off the kid who is in the minority.
Also, one might ask, "Oh, why do you think?" to try to find out where the kid got these ideas. Might need to do some deeper intervention with Nate than first meets the eye, and it would be nice to know early.