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No Sugar Coating: The Coffee Talk You Need About Foster Parenting

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By Jillana Goble — 2025

No Sugar-Coating is a warm, straight-up guide that reads like a conversation with a knowledgeable friend. It is filled with practical suggestions interwoven with compelling narrative rooted in foster parenting experience. See more...

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I Let My Child Create Their Own Gender Identity. The Experience Has Been a Gift for Us Both

We weren’t going to assign a gender or disclose their reproductive anatomy to people who didn’t need to know, and we were going to use the gender-neutral personal pronouns they, them and their.

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Explaining Nonbinary: How to Talk to Kids About Gender

Gender isn't limited to boys and girls, so it's time to break the habit of assuming people must be one or the other. The best place to start? Teaching the right concepts to our children.

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The Hardest Part of Having a Nonbinary Kid Is Other People

A mother recounts the pushback she received from her own family in raising a gender-nonconforming child.

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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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Hey, Wicked Stepmother, I Feel Your Pain!

How to stop hating yourself and your step-kid, as well.

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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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17 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Stepmom

When things get tough, focus on your relationship. It'll get better.

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Dating As a Single Parent: After the Kids Go to Bed

How to make it work at home.

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Sex and the Single Parent

How (and why) they find the time to parent and find a partner.

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Foster Parenting