Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care

Great book to explain how nobody loves the confusing and often changing nature of foster care, but that they don't have to let forever

We have found this book to be very helpful, but one must be careful. This book pretty much covers all of the questions that a child in care could ask, but sometimes that may not be a good thing. There is a page that covers what options there are for a child leaving care. It says that some kids go home to thier parents, something else, and that some kids get adopted. This is true and good information, but may not be helpufl for some children. It would be impossible to know, but we have discovered in the case where there is no clear plan for what is happeneing with a child this may cause room for anxiety.We ended up with a girl in our care experienceing anxiety over thinking she would be adopted out. Because nobody is able at this point to say to her when or if she will be going home, this left the option of adoption wide open in her mind. While we think it is good for her to understand that there are cases that end up with that as an outcome, just in case that ever was the case with her, she expeireinced quite heightened levels of stress thinking about this. We now skip that page when we read the book and she finds the rest of it to be very helpfu.

This book explains foster care and all the people involved so well. I had read it to my 4 y/o daughter before we had became licensed foster parents. I was worried that fostering would be confusing for my daughter and couldn't find any books geared toward foster siblings. I bought this book even though it is aimed more at the children in foster care and I am so glad I did! Our first placement was just for a few days. I told my daughter we were just having a friend over for a few nights, but as soon as she heard the lady introduce herself as a social worker she knew what was up. When it was time for the child to leave not much explaining was needed. I just said, "The judge decided ...." I highly recommend this book for foster parents and their children.

We were recommended this book by another foster family and we have read it with our foster child to help him understand the limbo he finds himself in. This book helps define the roles of the team that surrounds him and is easy to read and understand. Each time we have read it, we have been able to discuss with our foster child what certain words mean and the role of different people in his life. It is well worth buying.

I am a masters level psychotherapist who works with children aged 0-12. I found this short book to be helpful to the foster children I work with. The necessary topics are covered in a relatable way from the children's perspective. The last three pages are devoted to good information for foster parents and other adults. I'm glad I purchased this book and I know I am helping children with it.

My husband and I are first time foster parents for a sibling group of 3 kids who are in their first foster care experience. We are desperate for tools and resources that help the kids transition and make sense of this big change in their lives.The night I introduced this new book, the kids resisted, pleading for a Dr Seuss variety instead. However, all resistance stopped when I read the title to them: "Maybe Days: a book for children in foster care". They were stone silent and ready to listen to this book about them.This book is really well-illustrated and throughout the entire book, the kids pointed to pictures exclaiming "That's me!"..."That's you!"..."That is child services!". Suffice it to say, the kids, ages 4,6 and 8, really were able to identify with the story and were very attentive. This one reading alone was sufficient. The kids have not asked to read it again. They do ask a lot of the same questions that are in the book (Will we go home? Do we get to see our parents for Christmas?, etc). Because of this book, when they ask these questions, we all can rally around the same answer, "Maybe...".This is a good tool to help a foster family with new foster child transitions. Even though we have only read it one time, I'm glad we have it in our home.

This book is truly wonderful! It is appropriate for all adults that work with foster youth. In particular I can see therapists, foster parents, social workers, and advocates reading this with foster youth. It is a really great way to open up meaningful conversations and encourage the youth to share their feelings and experiences as well as validate them. The book talks about the roles of the different adults in the foster care system. It acknowledges the youth's feelings of uncertainty, and difficulty not knowing the answers to their many questions.

I'm currently getting certified as a foster parent. I bought this book in preparation of receiving our first placement, and have so far read it with my 6 year old biological son. He enjoyed the book, and it helped introduce him to the foster care system and get a perspective about the child that may soon be living with us. It was a great starting point to help discuss his feelings. It seems appropriate for elementary school aged children.I look forward to reading it with our future foster children.

We are foster parents and this book was very good for explaining to young children what the next steps are as it’s very confusing for them and they need help to understand how things work :)

I am a foster parent and I got this book to add to my collection, not for any particular kid. It's a good to have book in case you get a foster kid who is very new to the system and has a lot of questions. I've read it with my current foster kid who has been in the system for about a year and I'm his second foster home. He still has questions, of course, but sometimes he asks a question and then quotes the book - "Maybe"

My 7yr old who doesn't really talk about feelings said "this changes everything" after reading it (in a good way!). Highly recommended.

We are almost done our foster parent certification and got this book to share with future foster placements once we start having them. It addresses a variety of feelings and realities in kid friendly language, looks great. I will also use this book to help explain what foster care is to our nieces and nephews.

This is a great book for children in care.