Had a nice fostering-related surprise this week.Fostering is chock-a-block with nice little surprises.Surprises such as when you bump into a young person in the street you once fostered. On one amazing ocassion there stood this fine upright chappo with his wife at his side and their baby in a pushchair. He was holding down a good job in construction which his family needed him to do as they...
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Friday, October 22, 2021
FINDING THE RIGHT MOMENT
Our eldest foster child - not a child at all - is getting ready for the outside world.He leaves fostering any time soon.Ged's smart, in a street-wise way. He's only been with us a couple or three months, but he's still our boy. You have no option but to let them into your life from day one. Seeing him go off alone to face his future alone is emotional.On the surface it seems more emotional for...
Monday, October 18, 2021
"PROMISE NOT TO TELL…?"
One eternal dilemma faces most fostering folk at some point.It's when a foster child says;"I'll tell you something if you promise not to tell anyone."I suspect we face this one often and it's forever tricky as so much depends on so many things, not merely what the child wants to tell.At the crux of the dilemma is this simple fork in the road;If the child's disclosure has to be reported and the...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
TIME MILLIONAIRES
Phew, had some loaded days just recently my end. It's partly fostering, a job that never sleeps, but also life seems so much busier than I ever remember it. Not for everybody though, it seems.I'll get to the fostering story in a tick, but first; I've just finished reading a newspaper piece about a growing bunch of people who seem to think they're some kind of hero because they've decided...