Many children are lucky – they live with at least one of their natural parents. But, what if a child can’t live with mom or dad? What if circumstances dictate that a child must be removed from the home to live with relatives, friends or a foster parent? If you are having trouble creating a mental image or even coming up with the words, you need to read “Finding The Right Spot” by Janice Levy. It fills just the right spots of this challenging topic in just the right way for kids and adults.
This book tells a heart-felt, simple story of a little girl separated by her mom and now living with a foster mother, a woman she calls “Aunt Dane”. While “Finding the Right Spot” deals with a foster situation due to drug abuse, it could easily apply to any child separted from parents for any reason because the emotional issues are the same.
“Finding the Right Spot” fills a void in the child health literature for children and adults. The benefits of the book for adults caring for children caring for children separated from their parents are enormous by helping the caregivers see and understand the experience of the child better. And, for the child, they’ll feel less alone knowing their experience is not too different from those of other kids separated from their parents. That peer connection is very powerful for kids.
For me, the best part of “Finding the Right Spot” is to show how the love of a patient caregiver can help a child heal when wounded by the frailty of parents facing insurmountable hurdles in their own lives. If there ever was a calling card for why we need more support for social services, “Finding the Right Spot” is it. It takes a special person to be a “Aunt Dane”. This books gives a voice to those people and the many children they care for, regardless of reason.
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