3 Strengths That Will Help You As a Foster Parent
Every foster parent brings unique strengths and experience to their role. Every child has different needs, so it is a great thing that...
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Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day through Service
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said this when he was giving...
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Back to Bullies: Foster Kids and Bullies at School
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...
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The Benefits of Building Relationships: Part 1: Getting to Know Your Foster Child’s Family
Foster children’s families may have made some poor choices, but they usually truly love their children and worry about their wellbeing....
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Preparing Your Kids for Respite Care
Respite care can be a great support for foster parents, especially treatment foster parents, especially when the kids have a good...
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Foster Care: Expect the Unexpected
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...
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Why It’s Hard to Teach Foster Kids About Stranger Danger
Stranger Danger is a basic concept that parents teach their kids in order to keep them safe. Unfortunately, the concept of stranger...
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Cleaning up Other People’s Messes
Last week, our little guy came home from a visit and had explosive gastrointestinal distress (I will spare you the horrifying details)...
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Daniel Tiger and the Struggle of Uncertainty
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...
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Things to Tell Your Respite Provider
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...
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Facebook and Foster Care Part III: Social Media and Everyone Else
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...
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Facebook and Foster Care Part II: Social Media and Foster Youths
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...
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Facebook and Foster Care Part I: How to Maintain Confidentiality in the Digital Age
When I scroll through my facebook newsfeed, it’s filled with adorable photos of my friends’ children. My kids are incredibly cute, the...
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The Best Support in Foster Care: Intercept Treatment Foster Care
You only need to read a handful of foster care blogs to realize that agency and government support for foster parents varies drastically....
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Seeking Support as a Foster Parent
One of the reasons former and current foster parents say they quit or have considered quitting foster care is that they don’t feel...
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The Importance of Being a Kid: Giving Children in Foster Care Back Their Childhoods
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...
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Compassion Fatigue: What Foster Parents Need to Know
Compassion fatigue is something all foster parents should know about because it is an all-too-common pitfall for those caring for people...
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The Foster Parent Shift: The Impact of Foster Parenting on Friendships
“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...
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3 Ways To Help Prevent Foster Parent Burnout
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...
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5 Things To Say to Drive a Foster Parent Crazy (And What to Say Instead)
People are curious about foster care and often want to ask foster parents questions. We know this and are usually open to talking, but...
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