Super people who foster children

[grahamg]

I listened to a woman speak on the radio of her experiences fostering children.

The amazing thing about her, or most amazing, was the age she was when she started, (sixty I think she said?), and she carried on until she was seventy two.

She tried to argue she did not have special skills in order to cope with all the challenges, and the need to show love towards often hostile children when she was introduced to them. However, the way she came across, confident in herself, reasoned, appreciative of the difficulties though not fazed by them, she sounded special indeed.

They say in the UK, as a result of the lockdown, there has been a 44% increase in cases requiring foster care, so more like her will be needed, if they can be found(?). .

 

[Aunt Marg]

I worked as a mothers helper for a neighbourhood mother that did foster care for babies and toddlers, and let me tell you, she was (by far) one of the most loving, caring, patient, understanding, and giving people I have ever met in my day. Nothing upset her, and no matter how hectic daily life got in her home, she took all in stride.

 

[Mrs. Robinson]

I was 63 when I started fostering-hubby was 65. Well,our first foster was over 30 years ago,so we were younger,but then didn`t foster again until our 60s. Many kiddos came thru our home during the 5 years we fostered-some stayed a weekend,some up to three years. But after raising kids from the ages of 18 & 20,we decided it`s time for just us!

 

[jujube]

My parents were state foster parents for several years, mostly for temporary situations and respite care for other foster parents. At one time, though, they had a family of six kids (five brothers and sisters and a boy who had been at the previous home with them) who had been placed with them because the previous home had been a disaster. It was rough at first because these kids had some serious problems but they were good kids at heart and just needed a good home to straighten them out. The kids were with them for years and my parents sent them one-by-one out into the world; some were very successful, some weren't, but they still to this day consider my parents as their real parents.

I also have two foster sisters who came to live with us when I was still at home through a private process. I consider both of them my "real" sisters.

 

[Lizzie00]

My parents were state foster parents for several years, mostly for temporary situations and respite care for other foster parents. At one time, though, they had a family of six kids (five brothers and sisters and a boy who had been at the previous home with them) who had been placed with them because the previous home had been a disaster. It was rough at first because these kids had some serious problems but they were good kids at heart and just needed a good home to straighten them out. The kids were with them for years and my parents sent them one-by-one out into the world; some were very successful, some weren't, but they still to this day consider my parents as their real parents.

I also have two foster sisters who came to live with us when I was still at home through a private process. I consider both of them my "real" sisters.

Your parents had hearts of gold