So Blue Sky are continuing to keep Carers informed about the latest developments in everything connected to fostering. They call it training, I like to see it as an update.
Normally they would assemble us in a room and someone, almost always a hired expert, would stand up in front of us and deliver the information.
But that can't happen right now, nor will it for some time to come.
So they've started...
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Sunday, April 26, 2020
GOOD CAN COME FROM TERRIBLE
I don't want to harp on about the coronavirus and the lockdown etc.
So I won't.
I do want to tell you about some of the nice nooks and crannies of parenting that the whole thing has magnified.
Middle foster child is nearly ten, going on twenty-seven.
Child used to regard the difficulty of going to sleep as a big problem. Being awake half the night left the child exhausted by midday and lonely...
Thursday, April 16, 2020
FOSTERING; STOCKHOM SYNDROME?
Being locked-down with somebody else's children - that's fostering in the age of the coronavirus - is hard work, but interesting.
There's been a strengthening of the bond between ourselves and our looked-after children, though they don't rush at us to tell us that they like us even more than before. But they do...they do seem to like us even more. And I'm not sure why.
Our middle foster child came...
Monday, April 06, 2020
FOSTERING FUN
My Blue Sky Social Worker showed up this morning for a Health and Safety check on our home. You get one of these per year in fostering, they're no big deal. This one was different because when I say 'showed up', I mean that she appeared on a What's App video link and we did the whole thing via video.
Brilliant.
What sort of things get checked?
She needed to make sure our driving licences were in...