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    Question about foster parenting

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    In our personal experience, over a ten year period several decades ago, most kids were the product of neglect rather than outright abuse, and the goal was to return them to their parents when said parents got their acts together. Most of the kids had a strong desire to return home, too, and eventually did.

     

    Older kids, adolescents, were another issue altogether.

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    Question about foster parenting

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    It's voluntary, you don't have to receive a child in the first place unless you agree, and if the child doesn't 'work out' for behavior or whatever, you can have CPS pick them up.

     

    It's true you have to have a certain level of tolerance. Not many of these kids have happy family backgrounds.

     

    As far as older kids are concerned, you can of course ask to meet them.

     

    Consider this issue: my parents don't want me, and now these people don't want me either. Didn't do well enough in the interview, I guess.

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    Question about foster parenting

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    Usually, CPS will notify you of the need, you will agree, and they will deliver the child or children to your home. This is when you first meet the child, in most circumstances.

     

    This is fostering, not adoption. You are a foster parent to help in what are often emergency situations. 'Meeting' ahead of time doesn't come into it.

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    Insomnia

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    As far as the OTC nostrums are concerned I researched them a few years back and settled on Costco's house 'Sleep Aid'. It uses an early antihistamine, not diphenhydramine (Benadryl). It works well for me when needed, and unlike Benadryl, it does not have a rebound effect with extended use.

     

    Having an exercise regime can be a great help, too.

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    For people that go to other countries

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    8 hours ago, Leroy Luck said:


    Educate me on this. You can travel with ammo across the border, but it needs to be accounted for?? What’s the big deal about a random round?

     

    There are specific Canadian laws regarding bringing firearms and ammunition into Canada from the US. I don't know the specifics, but many pards here do; both our Canadian shooters and those Yanks who have hunted or competed in Canada.

     

    If you don't follow those rules, and bring firearms or ammo into Canada, you can have a serious problem. If you bring a forgotten shotshell into Canada, you are in violation. And you'd be surprised how many countries think of a single cartridge as a big deal.

     

    Others know more details, no doubt.

    For people that go to other countries

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    I live in a border state and my dad and grandad were born in Canada. My grandad grew up there and was an RAF pilot in the First World War. My dad was a kid when they moved down here; he declared US citizenship when he became an adult; this would have been in the '40s. We often went into BC to visit relatives. He always had to have his papers handy for re-entry the US, though he'd been a citizen for decades.i

     

    They never asked about us kids' though.

     

    Entry into the US  was always harder than into Canada for decades. Into BC it was easy. Now it's tougher to enter Canada, and a passport is necessary as a practical matter-- both ways.

     

    If you are a shooter, you need to sanitize your car of any stray ammo to enter Canada. An errant shotshell from an old duck hunt in the spare wheelwell? A .22 cartridge under a mat? You won't get in and you'll be lucky to escape arrest.

    Not buying remorse?

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    Then there's 'not-buying pleasure.'

     

    When after long work life you have some extra money, and can look at good stuff and think, I could write a check for that right now.

     

    But you don't. You don't really want it anymore, or whatever.

     

    It's a nice feeling.

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    Businesses long gone

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    3 hours ago, Alpo said:

    Was JC Higgins actually a business? I thought it was just a brand name Sears roebuck put on their guns.

     

    Plus many other sporting goods, including bicycles, campstoves, and much else.

     

    Braniff Airlines.

    Unusual favorite roles in movies and TV

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    2 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:


    Good stories never get old!

     

    ...Mr. Leonard's "Fire In The Hole" gave us "Justified"!

     I think that Leonard's stories were made into more movies and TV shows than anyone else's, except maybe Shakespeare"s. Around 25.

    Probably because he wrote both great Westerns and crime stories.

    A few:

    The Tall T; Joe Kidd, 3:10 to Yuma (two movies), Hombre, Valdez is Coming, Last Stand at Saber River, Mr. Majestic, Get Shorty, Be Cool, Jackie Brown [Rum Punch], 52 Pick Up, and several others, including Justified, as JBar said.

    Amazingly productive man.

     

     

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