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We were also signed up for younger kids, but our first call was for a teen. We took the placement, and despite the fact that we've had some big challenges, we are still very happy we accepted.
Clear rules are good - we actually came up with the house rules together. I had our foster teen write down what she felt was fair for a social schedule (how long and how often on the phone, same with going out or time on the computer etc...). I wrote out a schedule as well, and we just came to a middle ground.
The one thing I would highly advise is that you either block Facebook, Myspace, Chat and email on your computer (via software like Netnanny) or you monitor it (via software like Iopus). I did both and learned a lot about what challenges my teen was actually dealing with. I didn't tell her initially - but did come clean with her when something that was emailed to her necessetated I print it off and show it to the caseworker. I still keep the monitoring software on, but rarely need to check it anymore. I also keep track of all passwords and am given full access. Some might consider it an invasion of privacy - but it's just the rules we have for using the computer.
I was not interested in giving our teen a cell phone. I take her anywhere she needs to go, and most of her friends have phones, so there was no real need for her to have one. Unfortunatly her mother bought her one, anyway. We ended up making tighter and tighter rules for the phone because of misuse - and eventually sent it back. Teens can use their phones to send naughty pictures, inappropriate texts, talking at inappropriate hours of the night, and making plans to do things they shouldn't. So it's one more thing you want to make sure is monitored, if they have access to one.
Because we've also had some issues with our teen 'hanging out' and being unsupervised by other kids parents - we enstated the rule that either friends come over to our house - or I have to talk to the parents to know what the plans are.
I spent the first couple of months just getting to know our teen - the rules were implimented after it was apparent she would be here a while.
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