I
read this book via an Amazon-US KINDLE Unlimited download.
When
I got married it was relatively late in my life, I was 43, and my dear OH was
four years younger. We felt it was too late to start having children, besides I
suffer from a genetic condition which we didn’t want to pass onto any children
we might have had. But, after reading this highly inspirational book, I now
feel we should have not fostered but adopted a young age-appropriate child for
parents our age; especially since neither one of us any real family to speak
of. I’ve got a sister and a handful of cousins, and my OH has a couple of
cousins, none of whom we really talk to.
I, in fact we all can see and can image
a couple adopting one or two children, but the couple, Jo Ann and Dan Wentzel
had amazing 75 children, frequently eight at a time and mainly teen aged boys. Those
of you who have had children especially boys know what a handful it is to raise
one or two of them; so, you can just imagine the fortitude and patience these
two must have possessed to raise blended family and brew this size.
Those who read this book need to thank
this couple for sharing their experiences of actually being a foster parent.
What they’d discovered had been doing this successfully all came down to what
family subtleties are needed to raise them and to have a family which come
close to a natural family as possible.
This includes changing their mental
attitude of family from the dysfunctional one they’ve been accustomed to living
in. And once these children have reacclimated to a more normal family
environment, they can return to their birth family with a new outlook for their
lives and family they’d been born into. Hopefully, if the time these children
had spent with the Wentzels, or in fact any foster family, has been successful
this newly acquire attitude can be passed on to their children; and not the
dysfunctional one they came from which would only perpetuate the situation into
the next generation.
Along the way in sharing their story,
the Wentzles share their various and at times quite different parenting methods,
in the hopes others might benefit from in the raising of their own children; and
that. perhaps after reading this book others might consider the joys of
fostering children of their own/
Given what this couple has been willing
to share with others, how can you not give this book the 5 STARS, I’m giving
it.
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