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I'm going to do a post on my site about what foster parents can do at Christmas to make things easier for their kids. I have my own experiences but I was wondering if anybody had anything they recommend or could tell foster parents that would help give them insight on how to make Christmas a little easier. Open to foster parents ideas as well.
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Our foster daughter left at 13 and came back at 18...long story. She recently shared with me how it hurt her to see mom/dad gift tags on our bio children presents but our names on hers. She at the time didn't call us mom or dad, so I wrote what she called us. Eventually, I just started writing the person who was receiving the gift....
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Our foster daughter left at 13 and came back at 18...long story. She recently shared with me how it hurt her to see mom/dad gift tags on our bio children presents but our names on hers. She at the time didn't call us mom or dad, so I wrote what she called us. Eventually, I just started writing the person who was receiving the gift....
In the Buckner's magazine a few months ago, I remember reading about a girl who was adopted at 14 I think, and she said her entire life she'd been around for family Christmas card photos and the family would always make her step aside so they could take photos of the "actual" family. She said it always made her feel so excluded and like not part of the "real" family. It made me think maybe taking special family Christmas pics WITH the foster kiddos would be a special way to make them feel included.
What great advice! Our girls just came on the 21st but they were in our holiday family photos and we did write mom and dad on their gift tags (they call us mom and dad). Our family figured that if we don't get to keep them forever we'll have the photos as memories of that time when there were two additional members of our family!