We have completed home study #2. I am not sure why people typically get nervous for the home study, but we were not nervous at all. Amber arrived at our home, she walked through each room of our house and then we sat down and answered questions. Here are some of the questions that were asked:
How do we argue?
How we discipline our children?
How we plan to discipline the child that we will be adopting?
What do we do for date night?
What do we think our own individual strengths and weaknesses are?
How would we describe our kids?
Do we attend church?
How would we preserve the adopted child's culture?
Honestly, we felt very comfortable the whole time and were not at all nervous. We answered the questions honestly and truthfully, as everyone should. It was like talking to an old friend about things that we had gone through in life and in our relationships. No biggie. :-)
Couple of suggestions, make sure you have the following:
fire extinguisher
carbon monoxide detector a maximum of 15 feet from the bedrooms.
an exit plan in case of a fire
fire ladder (if you have a two - three story home)
Some of these things may not be required for your home study visit, but they were required for ours. Fortunately, we had everything already in place except for a ladder.
I hope this information helps :-)
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