FOSTERING; A TIREDNESS OF THE MOST PLEASANT KIND

Over the last few years, when people casually ask me "How are you?" I usually reply "Surprisingly well." Or, my favourite; "Pleasantly tired."  Here's what I mean;  Today we're on a break without any children; we're having three days in a hotel+spa in a forest, today is day...

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FOSTERING AND SCHOOL ABSCENCE RECORDS

One of our foster children almost, but not quite, likes school. The rest of them, every single one we've ever had, hated school. More so than our own children, much more so. Probably, if you could put a measurement on it, I'd say foster children have a dislike of going to school that's about 50%...

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GOOD OLD CONTACT…NOT

Phew. One of those multi-Contacts. 'Contact' is where your foster children meet up with their significant others; mums, dads, siblings. Sometimes Contact is a bit more complicated than that, but hey ho. We take our foster children  along, no matter their worries in advance, we pick them up...

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SENSIBLE SHOES

We've got a respite fortnight ahead of us, a young man whose foster parents are going on holiday and not taking him. Apparently he's fine with this, they are a good bit older than him and he's uncomfortable being seen with uncool adults.  Not being cool is a big issue in fostering. Up until...

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HOW TO BECOME CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

All the little things that go to make up family life are somehow heightened in fostering. It has to do with the changing shape of your home as young people come and go or come and stay. When your home is peopled by your own flesh and blood, children who've been with you from birth, they've grown...

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