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73Common Foster Parenting Myths
I've been a foster parent for over 18 years, now retired. Together, my husband and I have had hundreds of hours of training in the field of foster care, and then I have conducted hundreds of workshops myself...
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68The Past Does not Equal the Future!
Do you often look at other people and wonder, how do they do it? How do they have such a wonderful life? All those exotic holidays, beautiful houses, drive lovely cars, have lots of money, a great job and all...
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62A Differentated Stance With Foster Children
When a foster child joins your family, there is an implication that the child is important to you. After all, if the child were not important, you would not have taken them in as a foster child! In...
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53How Are We Disciplining Our Children?
"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." - unknown We all want our kids to grow up to be self-reliant, productive citizens. How do we get there? What...
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57Avoiding Child Abuse By Learning The Art Of Parenting
Introduction Most of the people believe that parenting is a natural thing and comes with the birth of a child, especially for a woman. Men living with a family learn it with passage of time and intimacy...
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58THE END OF A FOSTER CHILD
Joey was 14 years old when he was placed in a foster home of Anita and Smiley. His mother had been sent to prison, and father was unfit to keep him. Accordingd to statistics, his life had already been set...
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58My Moment in Time
The telephone rang as I sat watching the water in the river glistening in the noonday sun. Such a beautiful scene invokes a serenity that moves me easily through my day. That serenity was...
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67NJ Rules IN the Interest of the mother
When you are brought up to believe in the law. You find out the law comes back to kick your butt. A mother gives birth to a born drug addicted. The baby is removed and enters a foster home. ...
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76The Importance of Optimism, A Foster Parent's Story
I have a story to tell. As a foster parent of over 18 years, and after parenting over 250 kids and teaching classes for 13 years, plus counseling adoptive families and families in crisis, I've been inspired...
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62THIS IS DEDICATED TO THE OVER 500,000 CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE
"This is dedicated to the over 500,000 children in foster care." Those words were the opening lines of one of the most magnificent stage plays, actually a One Woman's Show, that I've ever seen, entitled...
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