While attending junior high or high school, did you ever look around at your classmates and think, “When I grow up, I am going to parent your children?” Hopefully, parenting children was the farthest thing from your mind back then. While I didn’t actually think these thoughts in school or ever, this actually happened to my family.

When we agreed to accept the sibling group, we didn’t know too much about them. We knew their ages, first names, and they had lived with their maternal grandparents for two years. There was a return home plan that their mother seemed close to achieving. Therefore, we accepted the placement even though the children were older than we had originally planned to foster.

When the caseworker began to fill us in on the case history, and began giving complete names, I was a little shocked. I asked the caseworker if she would still want us to consider the placement if I knew the family. She thought that might actually help things.

It turned out that I had attended two years of junior high and four years of high school with both of their parents. I naively believed that the mother would be even more motivated to get her daughters back once she realized that an old classmate was now parenting her daughters.

I had never met the girls prior to their moving in with us. Their parents chose completely different paths than I had. However, I suppose it offered some familiarity to the girls as we looked through my old yearbooks.


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