Below are the best resources we could find on Foster Parenting and offering support to others.
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So you complete your foster care pride training and you are a new foster parent. It is hard to describe those first few experience and feelings. Foster Care is a roller coaster and I continue to learn lessons every single day.
The Foster Parenting Manual is a comprehensive guide offering proven, friendly advice for novice and experienced parents alike. Distilling many years’ experience into one book, John DeGarmo combines his own wisdom with that of fellow 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.
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.
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.
It is an undertaking that can be hard on the heart. When we mention good self-esteem as a quality we seek for potential foster parents, people often give us a quizzical look. Why would that matter? Well, let’s explore that.
My status as a foster parent is ambiguous by nature. Do I count as a mom? Legally? No.
For parents, children can take up every waking thought and every ounce of energy outside of work. This is especially true for foster parents.
Educational Specialist Laura Phipps provides suggestions and encouragement for parents and caregivers struggling with serious behavior problems.
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