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So we are foster parents and we were taking care of a baby pretty much from a newborn until about eight months.

The mom did great. She got her kids back after she went through some struggles.

Long story short, her case has been closed. She has all her heads back after she went through some struggles. Long story short, her case has been

closed. She has all her kids back and she is struggling again. So with pretty much all aspects

of life, but financially she made some poor decisions where the car ended up breaking down

and she had to junk it and she contacted us just

for some help financially. We haven't helped her with money before, but obviously we love,

you know, her son very much. We want her to succeed. We know that giving her money is not a long-term

solution to anything.

So we're really just trying to think about the best way to approach her, talk to her about, you know, what's going on, how her finances are, how she can get assistance, build a budget, et cetera. And she's a's a very, very, uh, shy,

closed off type person.

So we don't want to scare her off,

but obviously still wanting to help her.

We're just looking for the best way to,

to maybe approach that.

Hmm.

Well,

I mean,

all you can do that's reasonable is to coach her.

And the only way you can coach her is to the extent she'll accept the

coaching right right and yeah and i yeah i talked to her yesterday and she you know i asked her if

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