Wise Thoughts From A Clever Foster – Adoptive Mom

What Foster and Adoptive Parenting Does to Your Body

  For six months out of 2017, Darren and I, Margie, had a total of six kids we were parenting who, between them, had multiple needs which required us to be in a stage of constant high alert. We w...

Creatures of Habit: The Importance of Routine in Foster and Adoptive Homes

A Lesson From the Birds Last summer, my daughter, Jasmine, and I had the privilege of running an exhibitor table at the National Foster Parent Association’s annual conference. Each day for three...

The Importance of a Foster Care and Adoption Tribe

  I was relatively unemotional, a bit to my own surprise, during our move to Florida this year, I guess because I was just really excited about it, but I had intense moments of realizing what an ...

Adjusting Dreams with Kids with Special Needs: 4 Tips to Help Them

  This past spring we attended a high school graduation for the first time as parents of a graduate. During the ceremony, we were inundated with numbers. Ninety percent of the 470 graduates were ...

Fear of Being Invisible in Foster and Adoptive Children

Fear drives behavior. If you really think about your motivations for your actions, much of them are deeply rooted in some type of fear. When hearing from experts in foster and adoptive parenting, you ...

When Everything’s a Battle for a Foster or Adoptive Family

A Nightmare I awoke from a dream, a dream in which I was climbing a mountain. The mountain and the view were breathtakingly beautiful, but the path was treacherous, unstable, and terrifying. It was sl...

6 Tips To Build Relationship With Birth Parents

  As a foster parent, many of us tend to join the journey to help children. Before getting licensed many parents tend to dream about spending holidays with foster kiddo or celebrating the child&#...

4 Tips for Recognizing Positive Changes in Foster & Adoptive Kids

I spend very little time on Facebook because I find myself distracted and losing time because of interesting and inspiring videos and posts. One such post was a video about a little squirrel who had b...

Transfiguring Adoption Changes: Honoring Beginnings

Today, August 1, 2018, marks new beginnings for Transfiguring Adoption. When Darren and I began Transfiguring Adoption a few years ago, we initially planned to begin the process of becoming a federall...