I'm told there are several categories of foster parents.Actually there are probably thousands, as in everyone is unique, and there are thousands of fostering folk.Not enough fostering folk to deal with the demand sadly, but that's another thing.Each category of foster parents have a lot in common. Resilience, for example. Common sense. Pride in the job.However there are differences that divvy...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
CONTACT - THE TRICKY BIT
A reader contacted the blog a while back to agree that mealtimes, eating, and food in general seem to be pretty much the constant headache with most children coming into care.But I find myself right now enmired in the other big one; Contact.Contact, if you don't know, is a legal requirement. It's a perfectly well-meaning requirement too. It's just SO hard to make it work.And tagged on to...
Wednesday, December 07, 2022
WHAT DO FOSTER KIDS MAKE OF US?
So, gentle reader, how's the housekeeping going?If you're reading this a hundred years from now (that's one of the many strange things about the internet) you'll need reminding that the end of 2022 was the beginning of an austerity that might end up the worst since the depression of a hundred years before.No point going over how come, but it's the reason I'm asking the reader of 2022 how their...
Saturday, December 03, 2022
THE WILD BLUE YONDER
Ok, there's a lot wrong with this country.But there's a lot more that's right with the UK, only it doesn't make the headlines.Take, for example, the way the state cares for looked after children when their time in fostering comes to an end.18 years of age is not grown-up enough to head out and try for a job, accomodation, and all the paraphanalia that amounts to independence.No matter how a...