Now you might be wondering about me, since my last post was about getting therapy for yourself…but I still believe, regardless of our need for help as parents, we can still be all in on our kids. To be the mom or dad who is all in on their kid… I never realized that’s...
This post kind of dove-tails into the previous one in which I talked about our grief and loss journey. And I personally don’t think this is something talked about often enough in the foster world…and that is the idea of foster (and adoptive) parents seeking therapy...
When a child comes into a foster home, whether it’s their first removal or not, each foster home is going to be different…from each other and from the home of origin…so they’re going to need a minute to adjust to this “new life”. I don’t just mean the obvious things,...