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Self-Care & foster parenting

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Self-Care Skills and Strategies for Foster Parents

Helping children heal from abuse or neglect is rewarding but hard. Like the children in their care, kin and foster parents need to find ways of experiencing strong feelings without becoming overwhelmed.

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Why Is Self-Care Especially Important for Foster Parents?

For parents, children can take up every waking thought and every ounce of energy outside of work. This is especially true for foster parents.

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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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My Husband and I Just Became Foster Parents—Here’s What It’s Really Like

For one writer, the process has been an emotional roller coaster.

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Top 3 Reasons I Needed a Break from Foster Parenting . . . and Why That’s Okay

The author feels strongly that foster parents who are able to recognize their limits before they reach them are better equipped to keep going.

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