Routines.I've learned down the years how vital it is for people to have routines.I've got them coming out of my ears, and they all do me the power of good.First thing every morning; I wake up, remember who I am and what day it is. Then I have a listen to make sure I'm first one awake. Then I slide back the duvet and squirm diagonally so my legs are sticking out, then sit up quietly. This is...
Monday, August 28, 2023
Saturday, August 19, 2023
SPOIL 'EM? YOU BET
A recent comment from "L" set me thinking. L is singing the praises of McDs and how they can be a magic wand in fostering.So true.I found myself reflecting; foster carers have a mysterious image in the eyes of non-foster carers. Many are not sure what to make of us.Are we a) some kind of angels on earth? super-parents? earth mothers and fathers with hearts as big as the great outdoors?Or b)...
Friday, August 11, 2023
THE PROBLEM WITH SOME BIRTH PARENTS
One of fostering's biggest headaches can be the child's birth parents.I have to remind myself loud and often what it must feel like to be a parent to a child that's been removed from your care. They must be mortified, well, they ought to be at any rate.Unimaginable thing to have to deal with mentally.They have to process social workers, sometimes the police, who have made a damning verdict on...
Friday, August 04, 2023
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PROPERLY "FULL TIME"
Of people who work, some are part time, some are full time. The full-timers believe they are full timers, but, know what? The fact is they aren't. There's only one profession on earth that works FULL time, that's us fosterers. Proper nailed on 24/7 we are. Don't even let that frazzled bloke who came to fix your gutter tell you he's run off his feet because he does gutters by day then puts in...