Have you ever heard a dog owner who's out walking their TWO dogs say;"Two dogs are easier than one."Well fostering is different. If you've one child that child and your family have to find a way to knit, but the knitting is kind of one-dimensional; a blood family/a non-blood addition. There's a lot of getting to know one another going on, it's hectic for all concerned, especially the foster...
Monday, January 31, 2022
Thursday, January 27, 2022
PARENT AND CHILD
A lost mitten belonging to a child has been hanging on our gatepost for the last couple of days. It looks miserable, but the hope is always there someone will rescue it and get it back together with the other one. Bit of a metaphor for fostering actually. A neighbour said to me he was surprised somebody hasn’t stolen it. When I said that I didn’t think anybody would steal a single small mitten...
Thursday, January 20, 2022
HEADS WE WIN
A reader, "Lilbets" asks how things are going with eldest foster child's resolution to geet me with a cheery "Good morning!" instead of the usual grump.The novelty lasted for……one morning. Had my hopes, but did anyone expect anything better than that? Not me. I bet not Lilibets too, much as I feel Lilibets is on side. I suspect Lilibets knows which way is up. But; there is a big "but"...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
EMERGENCY
We've got our first ever emergency placement arriving later today. I'm as surprised as anyone that not only did we get plenty of notice, but that I'm so organised that I've got time to talk a bit about this particular strand of fostering.Some fostering folk specialise in it, they prefer it to standard fostering. Some do it alongside having a foster child in the house. The fostering folk...