Foster Parenting

[redhen]

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*snort* they are here! THey send them to me!

 

[Sillystunt]

i'll tell you, my chickens have broken the ice with many kids. They come in here untrusting and we take them out back. It's like a whole new world that opens up to them. they let my goats out....lol PADLOCK

It's so sad to see how kids turn out from things that have happened to them. I just try to make them feel at home, loved and equal

 

[redhen]

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Silly, i know it wont make you feel any better. But they are so right that you could have NEVER known. PLease trust me on this.

And i agree with you on not taking in any older kids. Again, call me jaded, but i've seen too much.. These kids come from dysfunction and you never know how they will act out from it.

 

[Sillystunt]

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Silly, i know it wont make you feel any better. But they are so right that you could have NEVER known. PLease trust me on this.

And i agree with you on not taking in any older kids. Again, call me jaded, but i've seen too much.. These kids come from dysfunction and you never know how they will act out from it.

And here i'm totally afraid of older kids and this kid was 4. I just feel sooo sorry for my son and her. She is a baby, child, kid...urgh! I feel better now, thanks

 

[Boyd]

thats part of the reason I go with the polar opposite age of my kids

Cuz you never really know for sure.

 

[saddina]

Our cert is printed out and waiting to be picked up!

 

[Sillystunt]

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[Boyd]

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[Boyd]

well on my way to pick my dad up from the airport today my phone rang.... now I knew the number but couldn't figure out who it was so I answered it.... it was Ab's, the teenager we weren't able to help out last year and who's been in a residential since... she was calling me because she got a weekend pass to go visit her great grandma who was in a nursing home by us and since she was close and thinking of us she called. Surprisingly enough, I was just turning down the road where the nursing home was a within seconds was staring at her through the chainlink fence much to her surprise.

Kiddo has grown in the last 6 months!!! She got about 4" taller and slimmed down to almost nothing! If it wasn't for her eyes and freckled smiley face I wouldn't have recognized her!! Kid is taller than me now sheesh! I think she just about tried to crush me in a big bear hug.

I apologized several times that we couldn't have kept her at the house, we weren't equipped to help her like she needed and she forgave us. She admitted that she's made a lot of bad decisions and in the last six months in lockup it's really opened her eyes. She told me that once the agency finds a home who'll take her she can leave the lockup facility. I knew the hint when i heard it....

You have no idea how badly I wanted to tell her I will have an opening Tuesday and come back but in all reality I already gave her up once.

I really don't know if 6 months is enough to change someone, but I figure I can find a foster home nearby that I know to help her out... and maybe I could steal her on weekends sometimes?

Anyways, going to meet up with her tomorrow with my wife so we all can visit. She really is a sweetheart who never deserved her biological parents, and what was done to her is what ultimately what gave her the trust issues.

 

[redhen]

Hopefully she really did get the help that she needed. ITs so good that you can get to see her again. And it goes to show how much you guys meant to her, that she called you!