THE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF THE SECRET FOSTER CARER

I'm sat at the kitchen table, it's early Sunday morning, I'm the only one up. I wake earlier than I used to. There are lots of ways of feeling old, some good, some not so good. I'm feeling old in the good way that being in fostering gives you.  Actually, 'old' is the wrong word, a better...

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GOOD THINGS COME IN LITTLE BUNDLES

A neighbour came round last night, a parcel addressed to me had been left with her as I was out when it came. The parcel was intriguing, I couldn't work out what it was. I'd recently bought a few things on Amazon; a draining rack, some jeans and a pop poster for one of the children. The parcel was a box about the size of an old-fashioned suitcase. It contained masses of screwed up brown paper and...a...

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2018 IN FOSTERING

Now that the dust has settled on the Christmas/New Year thing... People make Resolutions, apparently 60% of them are abandoned come January 15th. I do find, I really do, that in fostering every year, I look at the year to come and make up my mind to; 1. Get better organised for Christmas next year. 2. Arrange with Blue Sky to have a respite break (eg Lanzarote) sometime around Spring to re-charge...

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WHY CAN'T KIDS CLEAR UP THEIR THINGS?

Is it me or are today's youngsters incapable of clearing their own eating debris away? When I was a child neither I nor any friends would have got up from an armchair in the living room and walked away from; A crisp packet, crisp bits in the chair. Empty mug, the bottom of which is going brown from the dregs. A pile of orange peel, the largest piece forming the base and the smaller pieces balanced...

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