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Here's my very best piece of advice: in every foster case, you only get to go nuclear once. You have to be really, really careful how you deploy your one chance. If you waste it on something like a haircut, then when you absolutely have to go bonkers to get them to stop visits that are making the child stressed out and miserable, nobody will listen to you. If you waste it over going to have pictures taken, then when you need to let somebody have it because the transition to bfamily is going too fast and whacking the poor kid out, nobody will listen.
So you've got to choose your battles very, very carefully. None of these issues are ones that I'd waste dressing the SW down about. Yeah, it's a PITA. Oh well, lots of things in life are PITAs. Most of foster care is a PITA. You just kind of go along and do it and grumble a little bit under your breath, and then let it go.
Save your giant fit for a time when it can really do some good (and at that time, don't hold back!!)
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