The child placed in your home should feel free to call you whatever is easiest and most comfortable for him or her and what is acceptable and appropriate for you. Experienced foster parents have found it helpful to offer several options and allow the child to decide which he or she prefers. An older child may not be able or willing to address a foster parent by a name that suggests his or her own parents are being replaced. In many instances, a foster child will adopt the name being used by other children in the home in addressing foster parents.