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Accepting the role of foster parent is an incredibly compassionate act that plunges us into tumultuous circumstances with strong conflicting emotions, high levels of psychological stress, and constant doubts about whether we’re doing the right thing. Foster parents take on all the traditional challenges of parenthood mid-stream, without the time or space to slowly develop the bonds and experiences that gradually build to a strong, trusting parent-child dynamic. Finding and keeping our center is a crucial part of becoming a parental figure a displaced child can rely on.

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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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Parenting with a Disability Makes Me Feel Like an ‘Impostor’ as a Mother

Fortunately, love isn’t a collection of capacities, of practical contributions. My love isn’t diminished by my ability to carry my son up the stairs, just as it isn’t diminished by the fact that I didn’t carry him inside my uterus.

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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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Developing the Characteristics of Successful Foster or Adoptive Parents

More than any thing, children in foster care need parents who are willing to accept them as they are, and to help them heal so they can reach their potential. As a prospective foster and adoptive parent, you are ready and willing to make a difference in the lives of children in foster care.

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