By Benjamin J. Dueholm — 2020
The licensing process – and the training, home visits and court dates – can be intimidating. Here’s what you need to know.
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It’s not easy to let our kids be less than perfect.
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.
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.