Nadav Zeimer’s Blog
How to Help your Foster Child Adjust to their New Home
One of the biggest parts of being a foster parent is helping your child to adjust to their new living situation. Your home may be vastly different than their previous living situation, and they’ll be wary of you as you aren’t their birth parents. While it may be...
Going to Japan? Two Things Not to Miss
My daughter is adopted from near Tokyo and my wife is from Osaka. As a result, I have visited Japan going on eight times in the past fifteen years. Only this year did I finally start studying the language. Shame on me, I know. With my wife to translate and my job...
The Secret Landmark Education Doesn’t Want You to Know
So I’ve completed every type of course “Landmark” has offered in the past twenty years. If you do the math, that’s tens of thousands of dollars of my hard earned money. It was a major line item in my budget for many years. Before that I participated in Gurdjieff...
Myths About Becoming a Foster Parent
Becoming a foster parent is not an easy task. First, you have to decide that you’re up to the challenge. Then, you have to go through a lengthy and sometimes complicated licensing process. While it isn’t an easy process, foster parents are very needed and often in...
Problems with the U.S. Foster Care System
The foster care system exists to advocate and care for children that need a support system. While the system is necessary and has helped many children who otherwise would have had no one, it’s not perfect by any means. There are four major issues with the foster care...
How do Foster Children Receive Medical Treatment?
Foster parenting is not an easy feat. Foster parents have to deal with a number of challenges throughout the process, but one that is not often addressed is healthcare. While most foster children are covered under Medicaid, which usually continues to provide coverage...
Importance of Educating about Birth Culture and Language
As an adoptive parent, you may have little knowledge of the birth culture of your child. We adopted from Japan, and my wife grew up there, and Japanese is her first language. Still, the work of educating our daughter about her birth culture and language was no less of...
Preparing to Become a Foster Parent
Being a foster parent is not an easy journey to embark on, but providing a safe and loving home to a child in need is one of the most rewarding things a person can do. To be a great foster parent, you first need to be prepared. Education The majority of the public has...
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