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Today I’m going to revisit the topic of The ACE Quiz, which I covered a couple years ago, as well as add additional material (PACEs) which I have since learned about. First we will start with the ACE Quiz. “ACE” stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences and an ACE...

Today’s topic is the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF), which might be something you already know about and if that’s the case, just keep on moving…no need to stop and read. However, I know that there are many foster parents who are not aware of CCDF and how it can...

My previous post discussed dysmaturity. Just to catch you up in case you missed it, dysmaturity is when a child is one chronological age, but an entirely separate (younger) maturity age; often, but not always, it is estimated that a child struggling with dysmaturity...

In my last post, I talked about finding friends from the point of view of a child in foster care. So let’s talk about finding friends when we are foster parents. Why would this need to be a thing? Can’t the people who have been our friends continue to be our friends?...

This topic today may or may not apply to you (which is something that can be said for all of my topics) but today I want to talk about the other kids in your home. So what do I mean by that? Well, I’m coming at this from the presumption that if you are fostering or...

So last time I talked about stepping off the roller coaster of foster care and what that means: staying in your lane, caring for the child in front of you, and letting the case play out at a distance (an emotional distance, that is). But today I want to talk about...

Something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately, and I want to share with you is the caution of not getting lost in being a foster parent. What I mean by that is before you’re a foster parent, you are a “regular person”. You have interests. You might have hobbies. You...

So I don’t know that I have a ton to say about this week’s topic, but it’s something that was brought to my attention by an adoption therapist (Melissa Corkum…she has a significant online presence so feel free to look her up for more of what she’s about), who is an...