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Adjusting Your Expectations about Foster Care

By Carol Lee

It’s hard to picture what foster parenting will really be like if you’ve never been a foster parent before. But, when foster parents say they’re “all in” when they aren’t, kids get hurt.

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Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This

It’s not easy to let our kids be less than perfect.

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Rachel Simmons
2015
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Mom’s Viral Photo Captures the Heartbreak and Joy of Foster Parenting

A family brought back together and healed is a wonderful thing, but on the other side of that is a foster family left with a broken heart.

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Genevieve Shaw Brown
2021
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Self-Care for Foster Parents

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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What It’s Like to Be a Foster Mom on Mother’s Day

The author of this essay has cared for 16 kids in the last three years and yet, many people do not recognize her as a “real” mom.

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Manda Carpenter
2021
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