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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]didn't foster in MoCo but elsewhere. The conventional wisdom is to maintain birth order, so only foster kids younger than your bio kid. I would make sure you have separate bedrooms for bio and foster kids.

Work--my spouse and I both worked FT while fostering and it was HARD. School registration, doctor's appointments, evaluations, therapy, phone calls to and visits from caseworker, court visits, visitations with bio family, IEP meetings, dealing with Medicaid, etc. Whether it works for you depends a lot on how flexible your jobs are, what other support systems you have, how you tolerate stress, and what kid you get (which you won't know in advance--the workers either don't know or won't say a whole lot; their goal is to get the kids placed asap). I am a pretty anxious person and if we foster again, it will be with one parent SAH with the potential to look for work again after a kid is adopted or very settled in.[/quote]

This is very good advice.  They forgot therapy appointments as well.[/quote]

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