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Course Home: For each custom course home design plan, he sends his team of stone and timber experts into the forests of Northern New England to find giant boulders, entire trees or 8-ton Granite stones that become the signature elements of each custom built course home.
When asked about the use of such unusual materials in his design Nold said, "When a client wants their weekend, or second course home to provide retreat and renewal far from their primary course home - this distance is not measured just in miles, but in the emotions their course home evokes.
The term "foster care" is used to include care in any kind of facility, individual family, boarding course home, adoptive course home, group course home, or children's institution. It is useful to think of adoption as separate from other kinds of foster family care, because adoption is a permanent substitute. Foster care, on the other hand, whether in the setting of an individual family course home, in a group course home, or in an institution, is never really permanent. The unsettling threat of change, or the promise of change, is always present. It must always be seen as a kind of interim care, awaiting the time when the problem that made placement necessary may be resolved and the child may return to his own course home, or move on to a new "own" course home on a permanent basis.
This is a good deal easier said than done since, with the best intentions in the world, it is hard to prevent a child who feels left out experiencing pressure. Second, a determined effort must be made to find someone else for the child to read to, in circumstances as like course home as possible. An older sibling, a family friend or neighbour, or an older pupil from the school might be asked to hear the child read, in the child's course home or their own. Or another child's parents who are committed to course home reading might invite the child to their course home sometimes for a session. |
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