Foster Parenting

[saddina]

Congrats!... dose she know you have snakes outside?

 

[Boyd]

she slept through the gunshots...........

 

[saddina]

Well... raised in the city, depending on the neighborhood it may be normal background noise.

 

[Crusty McPottydoodle]

Congratulations on your new addition. I spent the last months of grade 12 in a foster home and it was the best time of my life. For the first time in my life I had a normal functional family environment with a postive father figure. I was treated no differently than their own two daughters and they made my graduation perfect.

Every so often I get the urge to foster (and give something back), but until my feller finishes his PhD and we figure out where we are going to end up it is not really something that we can consider.

Cheryl

 

[Boyd]

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You'll know when it's time

 

[Sillystunt]

omg, my eyes are welling up!

ever since the goat ate my favorite tye dye dress i have been so emotional.....

That's awesome Boyd, so how many total do you have now??? Not for nothing she probally will love the change in scenery. Sometimes a different outlook on life is all they need! That's soooo super awesome

How many rooms do you have? Kids per room? Just curious on how one becomes a group home?? For the future

 

[Boyd]

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Right now I have 6 Kiddos with room for 1 more. My house is an old farmhouse that I've been renovating for a decade

5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 living rooms and dining room. So i have a decent sized house...

I just never intended to fill it with kids

2 boys share a room, 2 girls share a room, ash and her daughter have a room, 1 girl has her own room for now, and me and the wife have a room. I can tell you though, with that many gals in the house, 2 bathrooms aren't enough!!! I'm glad I had to pull 3 weeks of kitchen duty back in the day. Cooking for an army taught me how to cook for my demon horde

It takes me a lot longer prep time, but the kids take care of dishes and clean up

Memorial day, I had my regular troop, plus my stepson (prev marriage) and Ash's Fiance...... so I started cooking and prepping at 9 am to eat by 2-3pm and we ate in shifts

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Two summers ago DH and I took in a non-foster foster kid. He had turned 18 and his mother said, "See ya, I'm moving away."

She had met a new guy who didn't want a teenage son. It was three months before he was to finish high school and he was doing well in school and didn't want to change schools. So we found him sleeping in our barn. He was dating our neice and she hoped we would help. She should have handled it differently but..... He is a great young man now. He'll be 20 in two months. He graduated high school and then we got him a foster family who could keep him (we didn't have room) he takes very good care of their farm for them and he is working and going to college. (I helped him get a scholarship)

He's the kind of kid every parent hopes their kids become and this crazy woman just threw him away! I'll never understand how he turned out so nice coming from such a miserable background. He thinks family is the most important thing of all.

 

[Sillystunt]

omg, i am welling up again

Boyd, JEALOUS of the farm house.....

I have What in my yard, geesh that is sooo sad! Poor kid, what a wicked mother. glad he turned out OK

 

[Boyd]

as far as becoming a group home, you have to be a foster parent for so long, then just sign some more forms. That was it for me. The hard part is remembering all the continuing the education stuff I have to keep up with.