MY CONTACT CAMPAIGN is starting to work. If you're a foster carer, how are your Contacts going?
A few posts back I talked about a Contact which is really throwing one of my foster children. After carefully logging everything that happens at Contact for over a year, and recording how much disruption the child's family were causing before during and after Contact, I found myself invited to a review....
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Foster Carers should all re-marry.
We should get married again, those of us that that did (and still are), not that you have to be a pair to foster well.
But if a fostering couple were at some point spliced together in a ceremony, prior to fostering, religious or otherwise, they should re-marry each other all over again with a new set of vows.
I'm serious. My partner and I were talking about actually...
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Fostering and the school
Are schools awake when it
comes to our foster children?
It's a worry, because when
the bell rings/whistle blows just before nine until they run out to
us waiting at the railings we don't have any first hand knowledge of
their day. It's an even bigger gap if they're old enough to travel by
themselves, we may not see them for 8 or 9 hours, 5 days a week. What happens
to them in that time? Are...
Saturday, May 11, 2013
"40% of Carers suffer from depression..."
That was the headline on Radio 5 at 5.00am this morning as I sat in the bed in our spare bedroom, typing this post.
The news comes from the Royal College Of GPs. The newsreader has just added: "...at some point in their time as Carers. And can lead to problems such as strokes." So they are calling for us to be screened.
I woke up early by the...
Saturday, May 04, 2013
WHY FOSTER?
Nobody has ever asked me; "Why do you foster?"
Honest, hand on heart, nobody has ever asked me that question outright, apart from way back when we were going through assessment, and even then it seemed only a routine question along with "Do you have a car?" and "Do you have high blood pressure?"
People do ask about the child you're fostering, and often say things like "How marvelous"....