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Bridging the Home-School Gap: How to Support Your Child's Emotional and Academic Well-Being advocacy community foster care kids parent coaching parenting relationships resources school school struggles Feb 28, 2024

As we navigate post-COVID life, the challenges have grown more complex. Though parents are no longer floundering in the upheaval of pandemic-era remot...

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Empowering Families: How "Honor Everyone" Drives Success in Parent Coaching foster care kids parent coaching relationships support Nov 07, 2023

Welcome to The Foster Lane – we’re so happy you’re here! If you’re like us, you’ve discovered that traditional parenting techniques just don’t work fo...

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70. Rad Child Podcast Interview– NOW LIVE! adoption foster care podcast interview rad child Dec 28, 2020

Hello, All,

I can’t believe how quickly time has flown. It is way past due for an update into our fostering world. Sadly, that will have to wait for ...

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69. New Normal- New Space- The Foster Lane is BACK in Janesville and ready to help parents be the parents they want their children to remember foster care fostering new office new space parenting reuinifcation visitation Sep 09, 2020

Hello, all!

Can we believe that it has been six months since the United States declared a public health emergency and the world all but shut down. Mi...

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67. Foster Care Online Support adoption foster foster care support support group support system May 24, 2020

Hello, all, Mama S here,

I was chatting with some foster parents last week and they said that they are struggling with Covid 19 as it relates to thei...

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66. Let’s talk about sex baby… adoption foster foster care kids sexual education talking to kids about sex Apr 29, 2020

This has been a whirlwind 2 weeks in the Salisott home and I’m not even sure how we got here. To rewind… I started a part time job at Starbucks (Hello...

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65. Parenting in the times of “safer at home” adoption foster foster care kids trauma Apr 17, 2020

Hello, everyone. I have been putting off writing a post because I wanted to see what happened in the world. I was like everyone else, sitting on the e...

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64. When the World Stops Seeing the Trauma adoption foster foster care kids trauma Feb 28, 2020

Hey there… it’s been a bit of a delay in writing due to a wild ride on our part. One kiddo has been struggling greatly and has been transitioned into ...

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63. On the “other side” adoption foster foster care kids trauma Feb 06, 2020

We have always extended grace to the parents of our kiddos. We knew it was hard to have all your interactions supervised, we just didn’t know how hard...

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62. Where we went adoption foster foster care kids trauma Dec 04, 2019

Good evening, family, friends, and readers. We disappeared. We folded into ourselves and our home due to stress and trauma taking over. I ended up hav...

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61. Finding your kid’s jam adoption foster foster care kids Jul 10, 2019

Hello, Mama S here. Have you ever felt in your “zone”. The sky is brighter, the outlook is better, and you feel at one with the universe? Feels great,...

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42. Why we avoid maybe adoption foster foster care kids Jun 27, 2019

Mama S here. To continue on from my previous post about boundaries we are going to jump in on our war against the word maybe. If Mama A and I say that...

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