[HappyMomAnna]

And the bikes you have given I am sure have been well loved and used...

Again, I don't think this happens to most children, but it only takes one bad apple before Foster families are accused of all sorts of things.......

My point of bringing this all out is that to a child somethings mean a whole lot. In defense of the Foster Family our daughter was with.... it was three weeks after Christmas and our daughter could not ride said bike...another child in the home could and very much loved that bike...

The first thing we did is buy a bike the right size for our daughter...because we knew about the whole thing....I am sure had we "ASKED" for it...we could have gotten it... we felt uncomfortable doing so... we didn't want to hurt the child who loved it so much.... looking back we should have insisted on taking the bike.... so in some ways we are parties to that crime for not thinking about the whole issue and feeling odd about wanting this and that....

To: ANYONE WHO READS THIS --PLEASE KEEP GIVING FOSTER CHILDREN TOYS, BIKES AND CLOTHES....... especially for Christmas.

I just hope the original post brings out the fact that children see things different then we do, and this Foster Mother needs to think about the little girl and put off her display of disapointment until the little girl is safe and gone.... No one expects you to give away the intire library of movies. I am sure you will figure out how to handle the little girl and it won't end up a messy divorce!