Guiding Your Foster Kids to Use Social Media Safely: 10 Tips
Talk about daunting! Being charged with keeping a child safe in 2025 is a high calling. Introduce two “complicating” factors—caring for foster children (whose backgrounds and trauma history are likely a mystery to you) and the rugged risks of social media—and you have...
Paving the Road to Healing for Children Who Have Suffered Neglect and Abuse
Neglect and abuse come in all shapes and sizes, as do the children who have endured them. These precious kids are hungry for your tender, loving care, though sometimes you’d never know it by their actions. The first and most foundational step on the healing journey...
Healthy Ways to Team Up with Birth Parents
To be the best foster parent, commit to believe the best of your foster child, yourself, and your child’s birth parents, and trust God to give you grace to navigate the labyrinth of unknowns you’ll encounter. “Love believes all things,” 1 Corinthians 13:7 tells us, so...
Tips for Fostering Children with Special Needs and Developmental Disabilities
You don’t need formal special education training to foster children who struggle with special needs or developmental delays. What you do need is a willing heart to learn about and understand how to help these kids thrive. You’ll also need an extra portion of grace and...




