School Survival for Foster and Adoptive Children and Parents

It's tough starting at a new school, but foster children do it all the time. Find parenting tips to help foster kids adjust during the school year.

It's important to understand what the roles are of each member of your child's school system. Learn ideas on how to best partner with the school system as a foster parent.

A list of foster parent tips that I hope are common sense to most foster parents. This school year vow to do more for your foster children.

Send the kids back to school with less stress this year. A bit of this and that from a variety of About.com Guides to help going back to school or switching schools mid-year a success.

Bullying is an adoption and foster care issue as many experts find that common causes of bullying are rooted in diversity: racial differences, differences in family formation/structure, perceived sexual orientation, learning disabilities, and religious differences. Many adoptions and foster care situations cross cultural and racial lines. Get great tips to stop bullying now.

When it comes to making the decision between a public or private school, the school choice really depends on your child's needs and has very little to do with your child's status as an adopted child or a former foster child.

Many foster children often lack training and guidance in child safety matters that most of us learned before the age of five. Here are the top child safety issues that we have ran into as foster parents.

Readers share how they made a school choice, public, private, or homeschooling for their adopted child. After speaking with several teachers and other professionals, I have come up with a list of things to consider when pondering the difficult decision of school choice for your newly adopted child.