Focusing on older child adoption and related issues. A community of foster and adoptive parents and prospective parents of older children, sibling groups, teenagers, and other special needs children. It has resources as well as day-to-day chat. The Board is open to everyone, with or without children. To become a member, you have to be a Yuku member (free) and post. Please post in the Welcome Wagon and tell us who you are.
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If you have an emergency, post here. Town Council will move thread to the appropriate forum after the crisis is over.The emergency does not have to be life threatening, but can simply be an issue that needs to be dealt with immediately. Our 1st was a good example, a child who refused to go to school the next day; another could be some meeting the next day that you want help addressing..
Board issues (e.g, formatting, chat, maintenance). Community Announcements (Conferences, Classes, TV Shows, Court Dates). Dated announcements will be removed after expiration.
This forum is for polls/votes on topics of general interest. It's also an area for those with a desire to explore unpopular or controversial points of view.
This forum is for the discussion of the day to day issues - behavioural, emotional, social, etc. - presented by our kids. Here, you will find support and advice to hopefully help you move toward a resolution.
For issues arising from differences in culture between parents and children, the culture and children, etcetera. Culture can include race, creed, color, ethnicity, economic class, geography, sexual orientation, technological sophistication, or anything else you think it means. Some of these issues may be addressed in other forums. We will try to keep them crosslinked.
Most of us know that many holidays cause issues for our children for many reasons: excitement, stress, associated bad memories, grief for losses of earlier families. Also for exchanging chat about birthdays and holidays
Find out if fostering is right for you. Find support and advice on how to work with the system, how to deal with issues, and how to be an advocate for your foster child.
The focus of this forum is domestic (in-country) adoption and adoption=specific topics. Find out about the various routes to adoption and get advice and support on how to survive the process, how to figure out which child(ren) is the best match for your family and what support is available post-placement.
This forum is a self-indulgent sanctuary all about you. Come here when you need to be pampered. Gossip allowed and encouraged. Fantasize about retirement.Tell jokes and play games.