Parenting Classes for Foster Care and Adoptive Parents

If you are serious about the idea of adopting a child, whether the child is from another country or another state, you should consider taking some kind of parenting classes for new parents about to adopt or go through the foster-care system. Not only can this better prepare you for the huge life event of adopting a child, but it can also help you to raise your child to be a genuinely happy, confident individual.  Raising a foster child is never easy and there are inevitably going to be setbacks along the way.  However, by taking parenting classes you can prepare yourself to face these challenges and make the experience of raising this child a positive one! 

In many states, parenting classes for adoptive parents are mandatory prior to the adoption being finalized.  This has been the unfortunate result of some situations where adoptive parents were simply using their foster children or adoptive children as a way to exploit the government and receive money.  Taking classes will help to solidify your desire to raise and care for a child or children indefinitely.  They will teach you what to expect in different phases of the child’s life and make you consider your true devotion to this lifelong responsibility.

Online parenting classes are especially valuable to new foster care parents or parents interested in adopting children from the foster care system, because often times, children who have lived in foster care have been through a great deal of emotional stress.  They may feel like they’ve never been truly loved, feel unsafe or unstable because of different homes they’ve lived in, feel scared because they have lost their original parents either to tragedy or lack of interest.  These children have a lot they have had to deal with in their short lives and this can lead to tension between parent and child in their new adoptive homes.  This occurs even when the new parents have the very best intentions. 

For these reasons, it is vital to know how to handle potential emotionally charged situations in the correct manner. Knowing how to react to an adopted child's calls for help or attention is important in order to raise the child correctly, satisfy their needs and to get them past the stage of emotional distress that they are likely in over the entire adoption. Only in doing this can the child overcome these issues and become a part of the loving, stable family that you are striving for.

Online classes will offer strategies and tools needed to respond to the common situations that adoptive parents end up in within the first months and years after the adoption itself.   They are easy to register for, and can be accessed at your convenience from your home computer any time of the day or night.  A licensed therapist is available to answer any questions or concerns from 9a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday – Friday.  This will enable you to have any pressing questions answered immediately without having to drive to a classroom across town.  So if this is a life change you are considering making, be sure to sign up for a class online as soon as possible!