Hi Kari and Jane,

That is a wonderful post Kari, and what a life you have had. I really hope it turns out the same way for your son Jane. It is a really hard thing to go through as a parent. It would be great if government childrens' homes, hospitals, prisons, and other institutions would look at the effects of food on wellness and behaviour and make the changes.

I read a book called Ten Years by Roseanne Catt a few years ago which was a true story about a woman wrongly prisoned for ten years in Australia and there was a short section where she was able to make some changes to how some of the inmates cooked and ate and how they felt and acted so much better. It is a really good read if anyone is interested.

love
Fiona

: Jane I am sure this was a very hard
: choice to make. But I am sure it
: is the best. I was in the same
: type of situation as your son.
: After my mother became ill I was
: passed around from family member
: to family member (lived in a total
: of 5 homes) because my father
: could not handle me or my
: behavior. After all of that I too
: was put into a children's home. I
: spent the last two years of high
: school there. I had a younger
: sister and brother that stayed
: home with my father. My father and
: I's relationship got better once I
: was not living under the same
: roof. Now that I have been on this
: program we have a wonderful
: relationship. He always felt
: really bad at giving me up to the
: state and putting me in a home.
: But I tell him so many times that
: it was the best thing he could
: have ever done for me. I was given
: the structure in the children's
: home that I was not given at home.
: I went from failing out of school
: (expelled from one school and kick
: out of another) to straight As. I
: was given wonderful opportunities
: that I would never have gotten at
: home. I went off to college and
: got a four year business degree
: and graduated with honors. I don't
: think that I would be alive today
: if it was not for being put into
: that children's home. Of course I
: wish back then they had known of
: this program. I have since tried
: to contact people that run the
: children's homes there in that
: state about this program but have
: been unsuccessful in getting
: through to them.

: Best for luck with you, your daughter
: and your son.

: Much love
: Kari