The most important person in your home?It should be you.What I mean is that if you aren't on top of your game you can't give your all to the others.Can't meet your foster child's need as best you should.It can be darn hard putting yourself first in certain situations, sometimes you just have to.Take last weekend.Eldest foster child had been invited to a gathering. It was at the home of a friend...
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Friday, June 24, 2022
NEEDLES AND HAYSTACKS
Our newest foster child is going through it at the moment, it's worth sharing.Sometimes in fostering one can fall back on previous experiences. Most often you find oneself in a "Day One" state of mind.The little feller likes life as a foster child so much he's not wanting to go home.I've never quite had to deal with this one before. Shades of it yes; kids who want to 'stay in touch', kids...
Saturday, June 18, 2022
FOSTER KIDS AND MONEY
There's a bit of paperwork involved in fostering, as I'm sure anyone thinking about signing up to foster would imagine. Fortunately nowadays it's almost entirely online, or at least made more do-able thanks to the joys of the word processer and spellcheck.The most important thing one has to write up is the regular report on your child's progress.I find that doing my reports help me no end to...
Monday, June 06, 2022
CHANGING TIMES
There's no sugaring the pill; most children taken into care have suffered some sort of damage. They arrive at the home of their new fostering folks with a lot going on inside. There's a famous opening line from one of those Russian novels it goes something like;"All happy families are identical. All unhappy families are unique in the cause of their unhappiness."And for sure, every child...