Every foster parent brings unique strengths and experience to their role. Every child has different needs, so it is a great thing that...

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said this when he was...

Last week, our little guy came home from a visit and had explosive gastrointestinal distress (I will spare you the horrifying details)...

Respite care can be a great way for foster parents to get some time for self-care , but preparing for your children to stay with a...

As foster parents, we can control what we post online and monitor our kids’ social media use, but there are so many other people and...

As a naïve young teen in the early days of online chat rooms, I blindly wandered into the treacherous waters of the internet and neither...

When I scroll through my facebook newsfeed, it’s filled with adorable photos of my friends’ children. My kids are incredibly cute, the...

You only need to read a handful of foster care blogs to realize that agency and government support for foster parents varies drastically....

Foster kids are still kids. It seems like this should go without saying, but sadly, that is not always the case. Yes, foster kids have...

Compassion fatigue is something all foster parents should know about because it is an all-too-common pitfall for those caring for people...

“That will never happen to us.” This is what I thought when a veteran foster parent shared about the impact foster parenting has had on...

1. Know Your Limits You need to establish your limits before you even have a child placed in your home. Children in foster care have...

People are curious about foster care and often want to ask foster parents questions. We know this and are usually open to talking, but...

You may be convinced that, as discussed in our previous post , children need attachment and it is good when foster parents get attached....

The number one response I get when I share that I’m a foster parent is, “I could never do that; I’d get too attached.” People usually...

I have always wanted to be a mom, so I love talking about parenting in general and my kids in particular. Exchanging ideas and silly...

An important part of the process of becoming a foster parent is the home study. A home study allows the licensing agency to assess the...

Sometimes people say incredibly intrusive things and seem to think that they have the right to know the most intimate details of your...

Treatment Foster Care or Therapeutic Foster Care allows children and youth with a higher level of medical and/or behavioral needs who...

The children are obviously the main joy of foster care. Watching them grow, heal, and open up is the most rewarding part of being a...