Foster Parent Burnout - What to do when a placement is wearing you down: cope with difficult behaviors and judgment from others, decide whether to give notice or ask for a change, and look after your own family and yourself #1012478

You said yes to a child who needed a home. Now the behaviors are wearing you down, the people around you are either judging your choices or calling you a saint, and a thought keeps surfacing at night that you are afraid to say out loud: I don't know if I can keep doing this. Foster Parent Burnout is a calm, practical guide for caregivers in a hard placement. It is not about getting licensed, building attachment with a child you plan to adopt, or a birth parent's decision to place a baby. It is about you, in the middle of a placement that is harder than you were told, working out what is going on and what to do next. Written in plain language around the questions caregivers ask each other online, it walks you through the exhaustion, the child's difficult behaviors, the agency conversations, the comments from other people, and the hardest question of all: continue, change the supports, or give notice. Inside, you'll learn: Whatever you decide, you deserve a clear way to decide it. This book does not tell you to quit or to stay. It helps you see your situation clearly and act with care for the child, your family, and yourself.