Articles Index
How to Explain a Move to a Child in Foster Care
One of the hardest tasks as a foster parent is to tell a child in foster care that he is moving to a new foster home. Learn a few tips to help you with this emotional task.
Foster Care 101
Everything you ever wanted to know about foster care, being a foster parent, or becoming a foster parent. Know that regulations differ from state to state and country to country, but the basics and needs of the children are very much the same.
10 Things to Do When Foster Kids Fight
What do you do when foster kids fight? How can you establish peace within your foster home and deal with all the kids fighting? Here are 10 ideas to help when foster kids fight.
How to Be a Great Foster Parent
Learn more about how to being a great foster parent means helping a family be reunited.
Building an Effective Partnership Between a Case Worker and a Foster Parent
Ideas from past experiences as myself and my foster parent friends have tried to build working partnerships with our case workers. Ideas for case workers and foster parents to build working relationships.
Be Prepared to Participate and Work with a Foster Care Social Worker
Find a few tips on how to effectively work with your foster care social worker.
3 Days to Writing Awesome Documentation
Written documentation has helped many foster and adoptive parents through difficult times. This ecourse is to help other foster and adoptive parents develop the skill of written documentation.
What to Do If You Suspect a Child Is Being Abused
How to determine if you need to report an incidence of child physical or sexual abuse. Learn what constitutes child neglect and what information is needed to report child abuse.
Handling the Media Coverage of Child Abuse Cases
Foster parents are called to work with children who have been abused. Often these child abuse cases are on the evening news and radio. Tips to cope and protect the children.
How to Mentor a Birth Parent at a Parent Teacher Meeting
Here are some tips to help be a role model to birth parents at a parent teacher meeting.
How to Make a Foster Family Allegation Proof
Solid advice on how to best protect your foster family from allegations. It's not a fool proof plan, but these tips should help keep allegations from being such a constant in your life.
Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers: Things to Consider for Foster Parents
They may be cute, but are you sure you're ready to accept more than one baby or toddler foster placement at a time?
The Cottage
A woman shares some experiences from when she lived in a group home for teens.
10 Surefire Ways to End a Friendship with a Foster Parenting Friend
Do you have a foster parenting friend? Would you like to learn how to best support him or her? Well, here is a list of 10 suggestions of what not to say to your friend.
11 Ways a Foster Care Agency Can Maintain Foster Homes
Before trying to build up an agency with more families, perhaps they should work on keeping the foster homes they already have. Here are 11 easy ways a foster care agency can maintain foster homes.
Learn How to Be a Great Foster Parent in 5 Weeks
Five weeks of lessons to help sharpen your foster parenting skills. Topics include working as a part of a professional team in case plans, helping family reunification, understanding the grieving foster child, discipline, culture, and lifebooks.
What to Share in a Parent Teacher Meeting
One of our roles as foster parents is to protect a child's confidentiality. Thoughts from an experienced foster parent on what to share and not to share during a parent teacher meeting.
Documentation Is One Foster Parenting Skill that Has Many Benefits
This foster parenting skill helps children in foster care receive needed services and is a type of 'insurance policy' for foster parents. Documentation is also a useful parenting skill to continue after a foster care adoption.
How to Write Effective Documentation as a Foster or Adoptive Parent
It's important to know how to properly write effective documentation as a foster or adoptive parent. Learn more about what makes effective documentation and what to leave out of your reports.
The Challenges of Being a Foster Parent
I have stated that being a foster parent can be challenging but I have neglected to outline how foster parenting is challenging. I have started a list on what a few of the challenges are to aid others in making the decision on whether to be a foster parent or not.
9 Ways to Help Children in Foster Care
If you are unable to do foster care at this time, what other ways can you help foster children? We have several ideas for you that will help foster children.
Things to Do This Summer for Your Foster or Adopted Kids
Ideas for things to do to help keep your foster or adoptive kids busy during breaks from school. These fun activities may save your sanity and give kids things to do this Summer.
The Pros of Including Foster Children in Your Family Vacation Plans
Family vacations can offer a lot of fun for you and your foster children, but many worry about including foster children in their family vacation plans. Check out this list of pros for taking your foster children with you and including them in your family vacation plans.
Should You Take a Foster Child with You on Family Vacation?
Plan a needed break this summer with a family vacation, but should foster children go with you? Consider these points when deciding whether to include a foster child in your family vacation plans this summer.
Should I Do Foster Care?
Points to ponder while deciding on whether or not to be a foster parent. Information about Foster Care.