There's a multitude of experiences that make fostering one of the best things you can do.
There are a multitude of little moments;
There's the first moment a foster child calls you 'mum' or 'dad' (their real parents will always be their real parents, but sometimes they choose to call me mum and that's for them - and it makes me feel proud). There's the moment they refer to your house as 'home',...
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Monday, November 26, 2018
BUGS AND FOSTERING HIGHS
Winter brings a curious high in fostering.
It's going on upstairs in our house today, started this morning.
One of our foster kids, Ryder, has a cold.
It's a proper cold too, not an exaggerated one - you know; the show-business coughing and blowing of the nose when there's nothing up there...
No, not this time, Ryder is proper poorly.
And very, VERY happy. In fact it's a joy to see and now that...
Monday, November 12, 2018
GENDER ISSUES AND FOSTERING
One of the challenges for Foster Carers is when there's not much in our own personal experiences that are of much use in our fostering of today's children.
I've met a few carers who themselves had been fostered, that's a start.
But the world just keeps changing so fast, so very fast, that the things that my generation of kids had to worry about at home and at school and outside the chip shop (you...