We are still working out the kinks, but I think we are going to be able to handle this "four kids" thing. Not necessarily gracefully, but everyone is still in one piece and, aside from some minor skirmishes and a Great Deal of laundry, we've been pretty cheerful.
Church today was interesting but not too interesting. P. (the seven year old) told us they'd never been to church before, but they were fine. We even managed Walmart yesterday, and I didn't lose a single child! The kids are mostly playing well together, though Katie is suffering a little with having her big brother giving all his attention to a new playmate, and also with losing her Baby status. Both of these are hard things to deal with, and I think she is handling them pretty well. It helps when we remember that this is a temporary arrangement (it would be nice to have a clue as to How temporary), and that when these children return to their mother we will be able to re-assess what ages and how many children at a time we might like to foster in the future.
One of the fun things has been reading aloud picture books which are old favorites to us and entirely new to N. (the four year old). Her older brother doesn't like to be read to, but she is willing to be read to sleep. So off I go to try and read a cute little girl to sleep.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Still Standing
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Well, I figured you would be! Standing, that is.
How does that work when foster children are of a different religion than you are?
Anyway, it sounds like it was just right on the interesting scale.
Ah, your little one is feeling just a wee bit displaced. Well, that is normal and shows what a good job you have been doing all along.
Good luck with it all!
I really don't know How it is supposed to work when the foster kids are of a different faith than the foster family. In the foster class, we were told that we should be respectful of a different religion that a foster child might have, but these kids came with no background information At All. Around here, there aren't a lot of religions to choose from (or at least, not religions with synogogues or mosques). You could be Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian or some sort variety of evangelical Christian, or if you were Really exotic you might be Catholic or Episcopalian. Our neighbors don't go to church at all, but that is only because of disillusionment with churches, not because they have embraced some other faith. Honestly, I know there Must be non-Christians around here, but they keep a pretty low profile.
We made sure that the kids didn't take communion, and we told them that they could come up to the rail or not, as they chose. They didn't need to kneel or bow their heads, but we did expect them to be quiet and respectful during the service. P. (the seven year old) told us afterward that he Loved church. Not the God part, but the crafts during Sunday School. (It was a pretty cool craft, involving sponges turned into slingshots. I've no idea what it had to do with the lesson.)
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