This really struck me, due to a conversation that I just had with my son. He was really against getting school pictures done this year, and I really didn't know why. Then when they came, he didn't want to hand them over! Finally, I got them and put the 8x10 in a nice frame in the living room alongside the ones of the girls. He was really surprised...and then he told me that his two step-mothers had never allowed pictures of him to be displayed - that they only allowed pictures of "their own kids". Every time he walks past the living room, he stops and stares at his picture, and when I moved them yesterday to do some Christmas decorating, he was REALLY worried about where it had ended up!
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Originally Posted by Boulderbabe
Rhonda,
You know, you're about the eighth or ninth former foster child that I've heard talk about pictures. It must be so disorienting---if that's the right word---to have no pictures, no evidence about your own past.
After I heard one teenager talk about this, I was so moved that I started scrapbooking for my foster kids and foster kids from about four other families that I'm close to. I make at least a small album for each kid that comes through, no matter how short a time they stay. I hope someday these little albums will mean something to them.....if only to let them know how much their foster families really loved and cared about them.
I think a lot about some of these kids, and wonder how they are.
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