The Happy House

Crystal and Sylvia, our guides in China .

Crystal, our guide in Guangzhou, told us a very amusing Chinese tale, which is highly relevant to those adopting babies in China. A Chinese grandmother was not happy when her grandchildren kept making crude references to pooing and weeing in the toilet. Instead she told them to say that they were visiting the happy house to dance and sing. Adoptive parents become totally obsessed with bodily functions, particularly whether their child has been dancing in the happy house (children are often constipated due to stress/change of environment.) I am happy to report that all our little girls are dancing and are feeling much happier for it.