Advice needed
I've been thinking about this a lot lately and decided I need some input. I don't know if there are still many people reading this - but if you're out there and have some ideas to help, I would love some advice.
We are very lucky to have a lot of information on Jesse's birth family. We have pictures of his birthmother and regularly have conversations about her. That seems to be the easy part. For now, in his 2 year old understanding he's got the information down....and as he gets older we'll add more and more information. However, Jesse also has a birth brother that I have not mentioned to him yet. It seems more of a slippery slope to go down especially since he already understand the concept of brother (having Ian). How do I explain that he has a birth brother in Thailand that lives with his birth mother....without him getting overly confused or sad. We have a picture of his b.brother but soon Jesse will be older than his brother is in the picture. So I haven't shown that to him yet either.
I don't want to wait too long because I don't want it to be a surprise one day - like a brother drops from the sky that he's never heard of before. Any advice on how to start this conversation and introduce this information into Jesse (and Ian's) life? thanks.
We are very lucky to have a lot of information on Jesse's birth family. We have pictures of his birthmother and regularly have conversations about her. That seems to be the easy part. For now, in his 2 year old understanding he's got the information down....and as he gets older we'll add more and more information. However, Jesse also has a birth brother that I have not mentioned to him yet. It seems more of a slippery slope to go down especially since he already understand the concept of brother (having Ian). How do I explain that he has a birth brother in Thailand that lives with his birth mother....without him getting overly confused or sad. We have a picture of his b.brother but soon Jesse will be older than his brother is in the picture. So I haven't shown that to him yet either.
I don't want to wait too long because I don't want it to be a surprise one day - like a brother drops from the sky that he's never heard of before. Any advice on how to start this conversation and introduce this information into Jesse (and Ian's) life? thanks.