lifewithfosterchildren

My 5 year old unfortunately has a 7 year old sister in foster care in another state. She did not enter care until October of last year.  This child has not talked to his sister since October. The foster mom she was living with and I were working on these two children having regular calls when the little girl had a breakdown and had to be placed in a more therapeutic foster home.  Since that time we have missed two phone calls from the little girl. Last night the sister called again and the two children got to talk to each other. I was concerned a little because we have begun discussing with the 5 year old about adoption and what it means. He is excited about being adopted and I was afraid he was going to share the news with his sister last night.  He wasn’t very focused on the call so the adoption talk did not come up, but the sister called again tonight. She was worried about her brother last night.  I did not get a chance to prevent the discussion, the child was excited to tell his sister he was going to be adopted.  I am not sure how well the girl will deal with what she was told. More importantly, she talks to their mom every Monday night and I am sure she will tell mom what the boy said.  Since we have not heard from Mom in two months I will be curious to see if she calls next week. I hope the little girl does not have a difficult time with this.