It is the time of year for room mother involvement, field trips, parties, etc that take place in the school. What does that have to do with foster care? Well, it should have a lot to do with it since you are the acting parent for your foster children. This is an area that foster parents tend to overlook or maybe outright ignore.

My husband is a special education teacher and a few years back I also worked with special ed. students. We both have also worked or had knowledge of foster parents in the school we worked with and have been very surprised how many foster parents do... more

There are great benefits to placing foster children in early childhood programs offered by the public schools. The benefits can be life long.

Foster children coming out of an abusive, neglectful or just overall bad living situation need structure, consistency, and they need to develop social skills. Most foster children have delays with their education needs and extra help is necessary to meet their education and developmental milestones.

Developing social skills is a great benefit from these types of programs. In most cases, these children... more