Parenting Tips

12 Adoptive & Fostering Parenting Tips

Most of you remember learning skills for successful fostering and adopting during your foster parent training. These are invaluable skills that will help you to be better foster and adoptiv... [more]

Organize Your Life

As foster parents, you are given the responsibility of knowing which child needs to be at the doctor’s office this week and which child has football playoffs in two weeks. At any give... [more]

Gearing Up for School

Until the whole world is using year-round schooling, it’s historically that time of year that your children have returned to school. Along with a quiet house during the day, 15 minute... [more]

Making Positive Behavior Changes

Ignore negative behavior. Children generally exhibit negative behaviors for attention. By becoming angry, annoyed or reacting to these behaviors you are satisfying their intention. Unles... [more]

Handling Allegations Against Your Home

Any experienced foster parent can tell you that eventually you, or someone you know will receive an abuse or neglect allegation against your foster home. You are not alone. Sometimes the al... [more]

Preparing Our Teens for Life

As foster parents you sometimes accept the responsibility of raising a child until they are ready to leave the system. Did you receive that manual that gives you a checklist of things your ... [more]



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