Kristy's Book part 3 (and I am sorry this part is kind of boring)

[danidee92]

Hi, guys I have been insanely stressed studying for midterms but I am here now with another part. It wasn't that snark-worthy so sorry if this is a little boring :/

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[the1812overture]

At least Emily Michelle was a barely verbal toddler. But even then, there are challenges. I have several friends who've adopted babies and toddlers from overseas, and RAD is an issue for ALL of them. Those earliest years are more vital than they're given credit for.

Shirley's sister was, what, seven? And managed to learn English and all its nuances in weeks, AND become a champion speller AND know so much about all the US school topics that she was at the top of her class. It's literally not possible for a small child from a Vietnamese orphanage in the 80's (adopting from Vietnam was all the rage during that decade) to have had the education to make a transition from a Vietnamese school system (which was denied to orphans altogether) to US schools and be at the top of the class. It's hard enough when a child goes from a school in one first-world country to a school in another, as the 7-year-old daughter of a friend of mine is going through right now by going from an American school to a German one--despite speaking German from toddlerhood because of her mother, adapting to the customs, educational practices, history, learning the stories and tales used in classes, and so on, has been hell for this child who is now several months into the year. I read Yours Turly, Shirley when it was new. Even then, it struck me as horribly wrong. Even then, I wondered why their parents didn't help Shirley acclimate to life with a new sister, and how on earth Jackie would learn a new language so fast.

Re: Milk: Babies really shouldn't have regular cow milk. It's bad for the gut lining. But in the early 80's, when DM would have been a baby, people did it anyway. I was given cow milk, and that cow milk and formula have been tied to some extremely serious medical conditions I've had to deal with (I lost an entire organ because of it, and part of another). They didn't know that in the 80's. Giving infants rice cereal to get them to sleep through the night (also tremendously awful for the still-developing gut lining) was very common. I was given cereal when I was 3 WEEKS old. Today, that's unheard of in America because it's such a big no-no. A lot of things done in the 80's aren't done now because of known medical risks that were not known then.

Give it another 20 years, and we'll find out that there's something deadly in our drinking glasses, and people will wonder why we ever used clear glass or something. :)