I love it when I get to a CALL informational meeting and see new families arrive eager to learn more about foster and/or adoption! The meeting presents the basics of foster parenting and how to get started. Fortunately, we have a time limit or I would talk on into the night! However PRIDE, our foster parent training classes, are even more exciting! I join in on this group on their final day of training along with a panel of seasoned foster parents. This is when it really gets fun! The families are tired from the two full weekends of training, but they are also hungry. Their eyes have been opened to greater needs. Their hearts have been softened to the biological families involved. The misconceptions and fears of the children in foster care have being replaced with a greater understanding of the root of the behaviors and the need for healing homes. The seasoned foster parents come in laughing and joking about the highs and lows of foster parenting. They show the newbies that it doesn't take a superhero to be a foster parent! Not one foster parent in the room had regretted stepping forward into OBEDIENCE. Instead they all say it is a JOY!