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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 393705" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>While you'd most likely be awesome foster parents..............I can see problems that may arise. Manster would have to suddenly get used to a new child in the house, plus the turnover rate depending on how often cps moves foster children around. So even should Master get along with a new child in the house or even get quite close to them there is always the risk hanging over head that the child will be moved. While not all fosters are difficult children............some are mega difficult children and while you're experienced, having mult difficult children in the house to play off each other and escalate situations can seriously make a bio parent want a nice quiet padded room somewhere. </p><p></p><p>I thought about fostering when the kids were younger. I changed my mind as much due to the potential of forming a strong emotional attachment to a child only to have them removed from the home........that and at the time here you couldn't request specific age ranges. I did not want teens in my house when my own kids were preschoolers.</p><p></p><p>That said, I know a foster family or two that have made it work for them. Great people with the utter patience of Job himself (and maybe a saint or three). One set of fosters adopted my twin cousins........as well as 15 of their other foster children on top of the 8 children they had of their own. However their 8 were grown and off to college before they took in the first foster child. </p><p></p><p>There are a lot of pros and cons to it. Maybe it would be easier if you didn't already have a difficult child in the home, but then again maybe not as you wouldn't have many skills to deal with the kids that would be coming into your home.</p><p></p><p>Definitely a tough decision. One that I decided again. I had my hands full with Travis and Nichole and Katie when she was here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 393705, member: 84"] While you'd most likely be awesome foster parents..............I can see problems that may arise. Manster would have to suddenly get used to a new child in the house, plus the turnover rate depending on how often cps moves foster children around. So even should Master get along with a new child in the house or even get quite close to them there is always the risk hanging over head that the child will be moved. While not all fosters are difficult children............some are mega difficult children and while you're experienced, having mult difficult children in the house to play off each other and escalate situations can seriously make a bio parent want a nice quiet padded room somewhere. I thought about fostering when the kids were younger. I changed my mind as much due to the potential of forming a strong emotional attachment to a child only to have them removed from the home........that and at the time here you couldn't request specific age ranges. I did not want teens in my house when my own kids were preschoolers. That said, I know a foster family or two that have made it work for them. Great people with the utter patience of Job himself (and maybe a saint or three). One set of fosters adopted my twin cousins........as well as 15 of their other foster children on top of the 8 children they had of their own. However their 8 were grown and off to college before they took in the first foster child. There are a lot of pros and cons to it. Maybe it would be easier if you didn't already have a difficult child in the home, but then again maybe not as you wouldn't have many skills to deal with the kids that would be coming into your home. Definitely a tough decision. One that I decided again. I had my hands full with Travis and Nichole and Katie when she was here. [/QUOTE]
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