My Family: A 7 Year-Old’s Perspective

By An Adopt4Life Youth

We are a trans-racial and trans-cultural family. In contemplating what to write for a blog post on this topic, I invited my 7 year-old daughter to share her perspective, and she was interested in the opportunity to contribute. Here are her thoughts:

Sometimes my family does activities like pow-wows. I like going to pow-wows, because I like the food and the clothing. I wish had more Ojibwe friends. I would like an Ojibwe sister.  I do not like people talking about me being adopted. It makes me sad.

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