Some ideas from our PRIDE training courses I want to remember:
- Let each child pick a dinner on a certain night of the week.
- We are not taking the children, we are taking care of the children
- A child's personality is set by age 3
- The frequency of positive interactions is more important than the depth of each interaction.
- Don't make promises we can't keep, but we could say something like, "As long as you are with me, I will keep you safe"
- Validate, "this must be scary for you to be in a new home here"
- Ask how the child is used to celebrating something
- What was their daily routine?
- Give lots of choices!
- Always keep my word
- Have dolls, books, toys of the child's race
- Get pictures of birth parents for child to have/hold/display
- Keep everything they came with- even clothes they outgrow
- Keep a journal of how the child responds after visits with their parents
- Don't react to discipline issues- respond well
- Discipline should be geared towards helping children learn self-control and enhance their development
- Give kids grocery "expectations, list, reward"
- To foster means to help grow/nurture
- To adopt means to take as your own
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