Words2Mother: Reflections and Diatribes

Reflections and diatribes is real time exploration of the twists and turns of parenting in adoption and/or foster care. The author is an adoption professional, an adoptee and adoptive parent. The goal is to explore and inspire commitment and support adopted people and placements.
Sun Aug 7

Take 15 5-9 year olds put them on a double decker commuter bus for seven to eight hours with three teenagers providing supervision and what do you get?

A school bus without a matron, a brake, or destination in other words at least one of the outer rings of hell. Just when you think the image of preteens swinging from tv monitors and seat backs, running the aisles inside a giant torpedo flying down route 80 at sixty five miles per hour was too surreal to be believed the traffic comes to a…