I don't know about you, I'm having a bit of a tough time explaining the state of the nation to our foster children.
If you're reading this in a country other than the UK, you probably have had a whiff of our wranglings here, basically we've tied ourselves in a heck of a knot about whether to leave the European Union, and now there's a fierce general election going to happen during the run-up to the...
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Friday, October 25, 2019
LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE FOSTERING
Natasha was seven when she arrived at our house, at about 4.30 in the afternoon as I remember.
The social worker who had supervised bringing her into care parked up outside our house, got out and opened the rear door of the car. I’m afraid when a new child is due I'm a bit of a curtain twitcher, eager to get my first glimpse of the child. It's probably nothing more noble than raw curiosity,...
Monday, October 14, 2019
A LITTLE RESPITE FOSTERING
It's a Monday morning and I'm up early because we had an emergency/respite child arrive out of the blue late Friday night and she's due to go home first thing this morning. To be precise the plan is for her to be taken straight to school to give her foster family an extra 8 hours to right their ship before the child arrives at their excellent and wonderful foster home.
It's a fallacy that a foster...