Kris’ Corner – Connecting with Biological Family Through Food

So this post might be a little shorter than normal… for two reasons: it’s the holidays and people are busy and probably not very many of you if you want to sit down and read a long blog post. And secondly, what I have to suggest is fairly simple and straightforward....

Kris’ Corner – Being All In on Your Child

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...

Kris’ Corner – Therapy for Yourself

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...

Kris’ Corner – The first few hours of placement

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,...

Kris’ Corner – When Siblings Move Out

So now I want to piggyback on my last post about older siblings going to college…but now I want to talk about those older kiddos moving out completely. Obviously, this may happen right after high school, thereby skipping the transition to college piece. Or it may be...