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'Kid Whisperer' Bill Feidt of Lakeville Retires from Foster Parenting

Bill Feidt said he was himself once a 'misguided guided missile,' the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.


Bill Feidt, a Lakeville man so skilled as a foster parent that some call him a "kid whisperer" is retiring, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press:

"He's taken them in for a few months or a few years. He's taken them in at 1 a.m. when they're acting up somewhere else. He's put them to work on his Lakeville hobby farm and called them 'sir,' even when they call him four-letter words. ... 

"Feidt and his wife divorced in 1988. He sold the house and took a break for a few years. But when he bought a new house -- again in rural Lakeville, again with more room than he needed -- he looked out the window and again decided he had more to give. He got in touch with Dakota County and started taking in boys again."

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