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Welcome Hokte333... I think you've already done some things to get prepared by signing up for the class and coming to this forum. I'm glad I found this forum before I took the PS-MAPP class. I was able to come up with new questions while I took the class, and having heard people's stories here on the board helped me to understand some of the things discussed in class better... I had taught special education for years, so I already thought I knew a lot (and I do still believe my eyes were more wide open than some going into this... but still I learned TONS!)
I learned so much about myself as I took the class. I learned so much about foster kids and issues they may have from taking that class and from getting to know people here on the board. I hope you have instructors as good as the ones I had... the longer you're around this stuff, the more it makes sense...
...I too thought I wanted to be a foster parent for teenagers... I actually am, and love it very much... but now I'm thinking I'd only want younger kids, perhaps because I have J (adopted him a couple years ago) and his emotional/functioning age is less than 14... so I'd be thinking of kids younger than his emotional functioning age so I can stay in age order... that whole concept makes much more sense to me now than it did before I joined this group and took the class and got my kids I have now(as one example)...
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Kerby
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