In fostering the business of allowing your foster child to have friends stay over can be a headache.You want them to have fun, to be proud to bring pals to their current home, maybe even a bit proud of their current parents. Or at least, if not exactly proud…not too embarrassed.First thing, the planned gathering must be cleared by both sets of Social Workers. If you're new to fostering, when...
Monday, February 28, 2022
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
LIVING A STRANGER'S DREAMS
We're at the end of our most recent placement, a Parent and Child. A young father and his toddler daughter. The daughter's mother disappeared and the estranged father showed up claiming he could parent her. He was an unlikely dad; he had no job and nowhere to live. Social Services decided to place them with us to assess his parenting. There was a hint of the possibility that he was using the...
Sunday, February 13, 2022
SEPARATING A PARENT AND CHILD
As I've already said, our Parent and Child placement is taking up most of our concentration.You'd think the other young family members (our own chidren and our foster children) would be put out, jealous even.Not a bit of it.It's an interesting thing this, the value of having a teeming house. I remember an old friend of mine who was an only child telling me that one of the hardest things about...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022
FAREWELL FELLER
So sad, this.A lad came to us some years ago, I've talked about him on previous occasions but just to reprise;He was aged 17, due to leave care any time. He was a charming young person, considerate round the house, articulate and emotionally intelligent.He had plans. He wanted to create music and had bought some sort of keyboard/computer to kickstart. He had trouble sleeping and often stayed awake...