Hi...
We adopted our boy at 7 months old, he is now nearly 3. I have always read stories and talked about adoption etc to make sure it's in his awareness even if he doesn't understand what I'm going on about. Today, he was asking to see photos of himself as a baby so I did that and thought it was a good opportunity to get his life story book out. His reaction was really odd... he was happily looking at the photos of himself and with us and his foster carerer but when we got to the page of his birth parents he scrunched up his face, got a bit angry and shut the book... he was fostered from birth but had contact sessions with his birth parents until he came to us but he was so young I can't imagine he had any memory of them. I was just as positive when talking about them as other people in the photos. It reminded me that the last time I showed it to him he shut the book at that page too, at that time I thought he'd just got bored cos they weren't photos of anyone he recognised.
I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience like this or if anyone had any advice on introducing life story to a 3 year old?
Thanks!
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Life Story book... Negative reaction
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Ianrules101 · 17/11/2019 23:00
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