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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...

Foster parents are used to dealing with the ugly realities of this life, but we may not think about the fact that removing children from...

Foster children’s families may have made some poor choices, but they usually truly love their children and worry about their wellbeing....

Respite care can be a great support for foster parents, especially treatment foster parents , especially when the kids have a good...

Laundry: one of the unending struggles of parenthood. All parents have pondered the mystery of how such small people can produce so much...

I always say that anything can happen in foster care , and yet I am still surprised in big and small ways. This week was one of those...

Stranger Danger is a basic concept that parents teach their kids in order to keep them safe . Unfortunately, the concept of stranger...

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

Our little guy loves Daniel Tiger . We don’t let him have much screen time , but it’s the main thing he does watch. In general, I love...

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...