Walk Your Talk

All too often children coming into care have been moved several times between foster homes, creating attachment disorders.  Each time a child is moved out of one foster home and placed into another foster home, the chances for the child to form an attachment to the foster parents becomes more difficult.

Children in foster care have been lied to so many times, and by so many different people.  Teaching the child how to trust will take time, and a considerable amount of patience.  Removing the protective wall the child has built around their heart will be intensely challenging, but also abundantly rewarding at the same time.
  

In order to accomplish this task of creating trust in a child that trusts no one, a person needs to be truthful themselves.  At all times the foster parent has to be consistent in what they say and do, modeling truth.  You have to be known as a person who without exception, Walks Their Talk.