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Children being adopted from Haiti or other countries generally come home with some issues. Besides being developmentally delayed, they will most likely also be malnourished. They will most likely have skin problems (be it scabies or ringworm or molluskum). They will probably have quite a bit of dental work to be done. They may even come home very sick. They will be unsure of their place in your family and in their new country.... more

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Why should one consider homeschooling the internationally adopted child?

Many children adopted internationally, including those adopted from Haiti, are past the baby stage. With the length of the international adoption process, among other varying reasons (such as a child needing to be older than a certain age to be considered available for international adoption), internationally adopted children usually join their... more

We homeschool our children. We haven’t always homeschooled them. We started our first two children in Kindergarten at public school, like most people do. We had issues here and there, but told ourselves that homeschooling was a last resort—something to fall back on if we had no other options left.

We started having more and more issues with one child in particular. Our confidence in our local elementary school was quickly declining. And then, we adopted a nine and a half year old girl from Ethiopia. Just getting her registered in... more