Keep the Doors Open

“Keeping the doors open meant so much more than just foster care. It meant children, birth families, new friends, and even support for our own family that we hadn’t yet realized we would need for ourselves. Keeping our doors open had already grown and stretched us in ways we hadn’t anticipated.”

– Kristin Berry, Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned From a Year of Foster Parenting

If you are a foster family, you will very much appreciate the new book, Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned From a Year of Foster Parenting, by Kristin Berry. She learned that living in a foster home is like living with a revolving door. You never know who will arrive or when you will have to say goodbye.

Foster parents will find a heart of understanding and empathy, a voice of wisdom and experience, and a virtual shoulder to cry on through reading Kristin Berry’s book. Kristin is known for her honesty and directness with her audience–traits that are an absolute necessity when navigating the worlds of fostering and adoption. Neither her words nor her feelings are sugarcoated as she recounts the year of her family’s intentionality in “keeping the doors open”–a year in which they gave deliberate yesses to numerous children in foster care, to those children’s families of origin, to heartache, to exhaustion, to frustration, to lack of control, but also to love and to growth.

Although I am not a foster parent myself, I am an adoptive mother of two older boys, and there was much about Kristin’s family’s experiences that my own family and I can relate to. It helps so much to know that we are not alone in this journey, and Kristin and Mike Berry continually provide information, support, and hope through their books and podcasts for those of us who find ourselves in the daily difficulties and uncertainties of caring for precious children to whom we did not give birth. If you are involved in fostering and/or adoption in any way, you will be encouraged and will probably gain some new insights through reading this book. You might even find yourself wanting to open your own doors a little more.  

Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned From a Year of Foster Parenting is now available for sale on Amazon. For more information on the book, visit keepthedoorsbook.com.

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