WHAT SHOULD YOUR FOSTER CHILD MEAN TO YOU?

The most unfathomable question in fostering is; exactly what should your foster child mean to you. With your own children it's a clear relationship, or at least it ought to be. Parenting your own child is the most important thing in life. You love them utterly. You want them to be okay, whatever...

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FOSTERING BREAKS

When the schools are broken up fostering is a different kettle of fish. For foster children everything's "broken". Their home, their school. On a normal school week your brood are got up and out of the house Monday to Friday, with all the usual moans. No problem. From around eight/eight thirty...

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THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR

The song says that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. If you mutter; "Humbug' they shout; 'Scrooge!' I don't care; much of it is humbug and for the foster carer it's the most challenging time of the year. First up, did you know that more children are taken into care around Christmas...

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WELLING UP HERE...

There's a ghostly space left in a house when a foster child leaves. There are positives, such as the 'Job Done' thing - fostering is all about helping a child go back home and repair a broken family. Then there's the relief of the reduced number of household tasks and responsibilities that go along...

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