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Raynard Price "Ask A Foster Parent Anything" Talk To JudgeIMFosterParent3 min - Aug 22, 2006The Ups and Downs of foster careIn California, there is an official form that foster parents can submit to the courts. Let YOUR voice be heard. Don't trust a social worker to give the judge all the facts on a case. A judge who is not listening to a foster parent should be off the bench. The same is true for a judge who is not listening a child or youth.More info.... (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=foster+parent&so=0&num=20http://video.google.com/url?docid=7385780991507278708&esrc=rss_searchfeed&ev=v&len=170&q=foster+parent&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZn-QriOfq3Q&vidurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D7385780991507278708%26q%3Dfoster%2Bparent&usg=AL29H23KI4FelzP7Whv_tB3ty7cJ8rdg4w) During the holiday break, there are many opportunities to read, one of my favorite hobbies. One of the books I chose was Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan writes of the year after her husband’s sudden death when she is also dealing with the serious illness of her only daughter. In addition to the topic of grief, Didion handles the lack of control we feel about the events that occur in our lives; made all the more potent in the illusion that at some point we did have control. Her description of the grieving process beautifully captures its non-linear, non-predictable nature. Ms. Didion is a highly educated published writer yet the denial and pain of the grief is illustrated by her unwillingness to give away John’s shoes after his death, “ in case he needs them.” Reading this account of grief, brings to mind all of the other things we grieve in our lives. Grief in this case is the loss of a mate through death but the feelings of grief may also occur with the loss of a relationship, such as a divorce or break up. It might also occur when we lose the idea of a relationship that we thought should have been a certain way but wasn’t, like a relationship with a parent or a sibling. The grief that occurs when we process these types of losses may not come on as suddenly as that of a death but may be processed in a similar manner.Didion gives a personal voice to the process and her book is as much a love story and tribute to her relationship with her husband as it is a study of her process. There is much to be heard in this book at many levels. For yet another fictional book that touches on therapeutic themes, read Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, The Namesake. It touches on two of the main tasks for adolescents, identity development and differentiation from parents, made all the more difficult by the main character’s struggle with his Indian immigrant parents. How does one form an identity when their live experience is fundamentally different than that of their parents? It also deals with the fine balance of what to keep of family tradition and what to leave behind and the struggle to find that balance.

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