[Kerbchek]

I first visited this board a year and a half ago and was inspired by many of you who are still posting here while I was taking the classes, etc... I was was thinking I would want to adopt a special needs kid or two... This past spring I decided to do foster care for a while and am glad I did. I now have two foster kids (13 yo and 16 yo) and both are doing well and both are getting closer to going back with their bio families. Because I was doing foster care and not pre-adopt, I haven't posted much here at all lately...

Now I'm being considered for a pre-adoptive placement. I'm really excited and am anxious to see where this goes. The more I learn about this child the more interested I become. I learned of this kid two months ago at a "Meet your worker night" here in town. I've sent and responded to a few e-mails, but todoay I talked to workers and a therapist on the phone for a while and am very excited to see where this next road will lead. I know it will be a slow transition with lots of visits. He is 11 years old, in self contained specal ed. BD class at a RTC in another town. He is diagnosed with ADHD, Anxiety Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and Mild MR. It will be a slow transition

Some may think I'm crazy... I know I am! I'm no stranger to working in the mental health field and working with kids with behavior disorders... but parenting is different than teaching or being a residential treatment counselor... I now teach special ed. BD classes at a local middle school and spend my summers teaching 1/2 days at a local RTC at the summer school program...

It's inspiring to hear Indy talk of the diagnoses of his kids and how well they are doing....

Some may remember me being the guy who had the two teenagers (both BD special education high school students) and their baby living in my home (long story...) they're living on their own now... the baby just turned two today!!! Wow, how time flies.