Another Place at the Table

Posted on 03 September 2017 by Kathy Harrison

The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman s thirteen year experience as a foster parent.For than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters the offspring of prostitutes and addicts the sons and daughters of abusers and teenage parents who aren t equipped for parenthood All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos For Harrison, the answer is easy.Another Place at the Table is the story of life at our social services front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison s home, nearly destroy it It is the frank first person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption. Free Read Another Place at the Table [ author ] Kathy Harrison [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This was a really difficult book to read Harrison has been foster mother to over 100 children, and here she details her experiences over just a few years and with a small selection of foster children In chapter one, a midnight phone call brings Harrison a 10 month old with neck bruises and one eye swollen shut This is a picture of my son at 10 months, to help you place that age This is a really, really difficult book to read There tend to be two depictions of foster parenting 1 These child This was a really difficult book to read Harrison has been foster mother to over 100 children, and here she details her experiences over just a few years and with a small selection of foster children In chapter one, a midnight phone call brings Harrison a 10 month old with neck bruises and one eye swollen shut This is a picture of my son at 10 months, to help you place that age This is a really, really difficult book to read There tend to be two depictions of foster parenting 1 These children are so damaged they will probably kill you in your sleep 2 These are just kids...As a therapeutic foster mother myself, I found some of her honesty refreshing about some of the mistakes she had made most notably the princess crown And some of her feelings were good for me to hear that she shouldn t adopt a child that doesn t feel like her child after many years in the home.However, much of this book was alarming to me How the state of Massachusetts can allow such high numbers of children in one house is unbelievable to me At times, although the writing was confusing As a therapeutic foster mother myself, I found some of her honesty refreshing about some of the mistakes she had made most notably the princess crown And some...We couldn t help but wish there had been another, less painful option to foster care it felt odd to entangle ourself in a system that seemed to do as much harm as good I found it difficult to even identify myself as a foster parent The press was so bad Harrison, 7 As a former parent to teen girls and their babies I could ident...What I appreciated most about this book was the author s honesty It is difficult to be honest when you re writing talking about something that people want to idealize When someone wants to call you a saint for taking foster kids, it isn t necessary your first inclination to tell them about all of your mistakes My husband and I have gotten a different picture from our foster care classes and I think that her experiences were a bitold school fostering overcrowding, birth parents as adver What I appreciated most about this book was the author s honesty It is difficult to be honest when you re writing talking about something that people want to idealize When someone wants to call you a saint for taking foster kids, it isn t necessary your first inclination to tell the...This book is so beautiful and is an inspiration to do good in the world, whether that task is big or small.This is a fantastic book if you want to learn about foster parents, the social services system, the hardship of dealing with children with a wide range of issues Love the honesty that Harrison displayed in this novel, sharing both the good and bad parts of being a foster parent Her and her husband were remarkable in taking in kids from newborns to teens by opening their home, hearts and family to them They climbed through many obst...If I had read this book without knowing a foster parent in real life, I would have been too terrified to ever even dream of considering fostering Fortunately, I do know a real life foster parent and her experiences have not been anything like the crazy things Kathy Harrison dealt with I really hope this book does not scare any potential foster parents out of at least seeking outinformation about what fostering could be like.I was trying to keep track of how many kids Kathy had At one po If I had read this book without knowing a foster parent in real life, I would have been too terrified to ever even dream of considering fostering Fortunately, I do know a real life foster parent and her experiences have not been anything like the crazy things Kathy Harrison dealt with I really hope this book does not scare any potential foster parents out of at least seeking outinformation about what fostering could be like.I was trying to keep track of how many kids Kathy had At one point, she had 5 permanent kids 3 bio, 2 adopted and 5 foster kids for a total of 10 Part way through her time as a foster parent, a law was passed limiting homes to 6 kids under the age of 18 She still managed to get an ...This book was, for me, something that needed to be read a long time agoand yet this was the perfect time for me to read it Written by a foster mom who has cared forthan 100 children she has found humor, love and bravery in doing the most mundane and humane job I found the book enlightening about the foster care system and as someone currently in the system, I found validation I laughed some, cried some and found myself getting angry a lot as she shares her experiences with a system This book was, for me, something that needed to be read a long time agoand yet this was the perfect time for me to read it Written by a fo...I shouldn t read books like this It just makes me want to foster and adopt all theI ll just have to move to Mass with the author of the book so I can do just that since Pennsylvania is so strict about this 6 child policy Bureaucrats should not control the lives of children an...Honest, courageous, straightforward writing

English
03 September 2017

Kathy Harrison