Working Class Parenting: Motivation, Education and Inspiration For Parents

What if God called you to Fostering or Adoption? What if your role of parenting went beyond your own children, and God trusted you with a child who was lost and looking for love? The statistics are outstanding. At last check, in a five county district, there were 4,000 plus children in the fostering program. Newborns to teenagers, all separated from their families for one reason or another. School enrollment applications now ask, whether the child is homeless or not and an increasing percentage of children only eat at school. The numbers are staggering, but there is hope. We are a people of hope, moved to answer the call for the sake of the next generation. This is a short story on one family's attempt to make a difference.

Mediocrity: the state or mindset of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance: ordinary, so-so. I tend to believe that all are born with a earnest desire to be great. A desire to make a difference, to impact our surroundings, if not the world. At some point; however, we are some how convinced that "awesomeness" must be for someone else. That perhaps our place in life is somewhere between mediocre and ... The truth is God has created all with a divine purpose. Strategically designed for impact. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Lets put mediocrity to rest in our children by seeing in them what God already see's. To instill in them a legacy of hope and Humble Confidence . A mindset that in the boldest, strongest, and most energetic time of their lives they can make a difference. What a privilege to be trusted with the task of rearing the next ...

" Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of God. "           Herbert Hoover-Father of 2nd- Republican Party " Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. "           John F. Kennedy-Father of 4- Democratic Party Nice to know we can agree on something, I am glad I read a bedtime story to the most wholesome and most valuable child I know before I turned the TV on tonight.