Session Six: Meeting Developmental Needs: Discipline. This session explores the challenge of discipline and the difference between discipline and punishment. The session offers an outline of ways foster and adoptive parents can best meet the goal of providing discipline that works.
Tonight we learned what is acceptable and not acceptable as far as "punishment" and discipline goes for foster children. We learned that Spanking is absolutely not allowed in any way and if you have biological children in the home, the foster children can not know about or ever hear any type of spanking of the bio children. They recommend redirection and time outs, or other forms of applicable punishments that fit the "crime".
We also learned about effective ways to handle the children after a visit with the birth parents, before the parents rights have been terminated. These children will most often act out in some way or another, to do feelings of anger, sadness, resentment etc.
YES, we turned in our application! Yippeeee! The social worker/PRIDE instructor reviewed it to make sure everything was complete and said we will be contacted within 30 days by our assigned social worker. Then we will schedule the homestudy. We have done a couple of things around the house to prepare, like get the fire extinguisher for the kitchen and put the safety outlet covers on. We still have quite a bit to do, but we will!
April 9, 2008
PRIDE Session 6 (04/08/08)
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I am so happy for you,I have two children of my own. My husband has two, in which they are all grown and gone. I have custody of my two grandaughters . We started foster classes in 2006. We now have been fostering children since. We got three sisters ages 3,6,9,In December of 2006. They were all three scattered around in different homes. We decided to foster the three of three, and that they needed to be together.Although it has be very hard sometimes especially with the youngest one. We had to put her in a behavouir school. All three of them have ADDHD the youngest has tempertantrums that would last up to two hours at a time. Although our own children don't come with instructions. They have come a long way,it took a year and a half to get the youngest one get where she is today. She still is a handful but so many people gave up on her, we are the 7th family she has had. No one would keep her over six weeks thats how bad she was. Due to school,love, and feeling not being abanded again she is much better. With out Gods love and help we would not had made it with her. God never gives up on us so we should try our best never to give up either. We will adopt the three sisters at the end of June 2008. After all the hard times,school,theraphist,classes,doctors,ect. It will all be worth it. May God bless you as much as he has blessed us. Good Luck . Karen
we are so glad to see that these classes are giving you the most out of them. It is so good to learn and be prepared, even for the ones who already have kids. I wish we had taken some classes before we had ours (but its not a bad idea to take classes in parenting once you are already a parent), you can never be too prepared! all this info you two are sharing with everyone, is really inspiring...
We are beyond proud, to see all that you both have done so far,, and what you are about to take on...being the best thing on earth -PARENTS.
You both deserve this more than anything...and its about to happen.
HUGS <33
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