My child has never asked about his/her ethnicity – does that mean heritage camp wouldn be a good fit for him/her?
Not usually. Though some children may not verbalize their thoughts about being “different” from his or her parents, relatives, possibly peer group, they are most likely internalizing those thoughts and feelings from a very young age. Heritage Camp is an opportunity to validate those feelings, simply by spending four days with other children “just like” him or her, and they are “just like” not only in the color of their skin, or shape of their eyes, or wave of their hair, but also in the fact that they are adopted. Knowing you are not the “only one” is a very reassuring feeling for children and probably the strongest reason to attend a heritage camp. As parents there is no greater gift you can give your child than the opportunity to discover who they really are, and to celebrate in that discovery with them.
