why is there a binky in my boot, and other tales of foster care

[perishtwice]

last Christmas, my roommate Leo decided he wanted to adopt a foster kid since he never had kids of his own and is about to turn 50. we both went through Nevada's foster license program, passed all the classes, and waited for our background checks to clear so we could get our licenses. we got approved and about 5 days ago (or it could have been a

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Re: How do full time parents do it?

[perishtwice]

The classroom training was just crisis intervention and behavioral stuff...they didn't prepare us for actual *parenthood*. Parenthood = you take your eyes off a 5 year old for less than 2 minutes to get them some juice and they've shoved 2 discs into 1 ps3 and rendered it useless.

/sigh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p73PZIDQuA

And thanks, I need all the luck I can get!

[muppetk]

Holy shit. Wow. I've never heard that parenthood is easy, and you certainly didn't take the easy way out by volunteering for special needs kids. You are officially a good egg. Good on the both of you.