Preparing Your Home for Foster Care
Deciding to open your heart and home to foster children is a life-changing decision. Once the decision is made, you’ll need to navigate some paperwork and screening steps. One of these is completing a foster care home study. Its primary goal is assessing your home to...
Tips to Defuse Sibling Rivalry in Your Foster Family
One minute they’re getting along and the next minute they’re at each others’ throats. Conflicts between brothers and sisters, otherwise known as sibling rivalry, erupt in every home. But introducing foster kids to the family mix intensify the hitting, grabbing,...
Sleep’s Importance to Your Child’s Learning and Growth
We all need sleep. There’s no arguing that. But for children and teenagers, sleep plays a vital role in physical and mental growth and development. Since nighttime has often been a scary time full of trauma and unknowns, lots of foster and adoptive kids have trouble...
For the joy that was set before me…
This April, we celebrated the high holidays of Easter and Passover. These two special holidays commemorate the blessings of God in protecting the innocent and vulnerable, and they also celebrate victory over tremendous trauma. May is foster care awareness month, but I...
Get A Grip on Your Foster or Adoptive Child’s Early Trauma
As a foster or adoptive parent, you have both the responsibility and the privilege to help your child identify, navigate, and heal from trauma. To do that, you’ll need to roll up your sleeves and do some heavy lifting, including becoming a serious student of trauma....
9 Ways to Discipline Foster and Adopted Children
If you’re a foster parent or you’ve adopted a child, you’re tuned in to the challenge of managing difficult behaviors. So many children in the foster care system have endured tragic abuse, neglect, and trauma. The result? They often express their feelings through...
Celebrate Agape Love This February!
It’s beautiful and amazing to me how intentional our neighbors are being in their efforts to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year. My children’s elementary school didn’t allow homemade cookies nor handwritten Valentine’s Day cards, but the...
Help Your Foster Kids Feel the Love this Valentine’s Day
“Feeling the love” this time of year is far more than a warm, fuzzy sentiment in the Lion King theme song! For sure, expressing love is likely a core reason you do foster care—and showing your foster children they are loved is important every day. But Valentine’s Day...
7 Tips for Fostering in the New Year
As most foster families know, foster care is mostly a learn-as-you-go situation—you’ll figure out most of it as you go along. But here are some tried and true tips routinely passed down from one successful foster family to the next. If you’re not already familiar with...Gallery
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