num_pages: 39
description: The moment a foster child comes to live with your family and in your home his whole world has changed completely. There are now different rules and different expectations to follow for him; rules and expectations that may seem very unfamiliar and very strange to him. Remember your house is a new environment for him. There is even a set of new parents for him and if you have children of your own new brothers and sisters to get used to as well. Everything he has known to be true from his previous home and biological family is now different. Make no mistake; these are significant and profound changes in your foster childs lifestyle. These sudden changes can be quite traumatic in his life and are sure to be very upsetting to him as well. All decision making has been taken away from your foster child as he has had no say in being removed from his family and placed into foster care. Indeed your foster child is in your house against his will and against his wishes. Quite simply he doesnt want to be there in your home as everything is unfamiliar to him. It is not his family it is not his home and it is not his rules. Leading foster care expert Dr. John DeGarmo shares personal stories as well as strategies and tips designed to help foster parents kinship parents and social workers as they create house rules and expectations in order to keep children in foster care safe.
language: English
title: Foster Parenting 101: House Rules and Saftey for your Foster Child
publisher: None