I just received an email from an entrepreneurial adoptive mom. She and a friend are considering creating a line of products to help adoptive families celebrate their child’s adoption day (sometimes referred to as "Gotcha" day).
They want your input about products you’d be likely to purchase. They’re particularly looking for ideas for boys. Here are their ideas so far — please let them know what you think of their overall idea, of their products, and whether you have suggestions for additional products (take the poll and/or respond in the Comments area).
- Picture frames decorated with flags of the child’s birth country, airplanes, and maybe the child’s birth date and gotcha day date
- Cake plate
- Cupcake plate
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As an adult adoptee, “gotcha” sounds to me like a dogcatcher going after a mangy stray dog.
Personally, I think a double photo frame with room for a pic (mother & child) and an adoption poem “You didn’t grow under my heart but in it,etc” would be appropriate. There are some beautiful poems out there that would become a treasured keepsake for mother and child.
Gotcha Day is a horrid and insensitive term. Nothing like rubbing salt into the wound, remember, that child had to LOSE EVERYTHING prior to adoption. Mother, father, family, and in some cases, entire culture. It’s not cute, it’s disgusting.
And to think some cheese ball poem is going to make up for that loss? Gross. Just gross. It shows how woefully unprepared most people are for taking on the responsibility of raising someone else’s child.
Gotcha Day, It’s important to my daughter! She knows she has a biological mother and an adoptive mother. It’s not disgusting to our family. We thank God for the biological mother and our daughter on this day. Yes, it is sad, but it also opens a door to many families and children. Our daughter came from an orphanage and we will always celebrate her Gotcha Day! It’s the day that we became a family! There is good to be found in this special title.
I just wanted to share some positive info on this topic!!!! A lot of children find hope and peace on the their gotcha day along with some pain.
Thanks!