Dear Queenie,
My husband and I have two children we adopted when they were babies. We don’t talk about this much (we will explain it to the children when they are older) but sometimes it comes up in a conversation and the other person asks questions about how it came about, what happened to their real parents, and we don’t want to answer them, especially if the kids are around to hear.
Queenie, what’s a good (polite) way to shut the other person up?—Not their real parents
Dear Parents,
You are your children’s “real” parents because you are raising them, you just are not their “birth” parents.
Just tell such rude people – politely – that the story is too long to tell right now, “but aren’t we lucky to have such beautiful children?”
