Food is a big issue for many children with difficult life experiences.
This post is all about how we helped our son Shane turn his food issues into a career in catering.
I hope it is really helpful to you.
Lockdown presents many challenges for foster and adoptive families.
However, some families are thriving at this time. This post explores the positives of lockdown and asks what we can learn from this experience.
Is your child worried about Covid-19? Are you struggling to know how best to support them with their concerns? This post by a therapist and adoptive parent offers ideas that may help.
Continue readingSanta: Happy, jolly man who brings you gifts or man to fear?
Read this post about how the magic of Christmas may be an issue within fostering and adoption.
Continue readingNativity plays, carol concerts and christmas bake sales have to be better than english and maths lessons, right?
Not necessarily for traumatised children. Read this post to discover where the difficulties may lie and how we can work with that therapeutically.
Two years before I began fostering, I was working with a young girl in a children’s home who had a diagnosis of ‘attachment disorder’. The home was a standard local authority run residential. As such,
Continue readingShould foster parents receive fair pay and worker rights in the UK? Who is really making the money from our fostering system?
Warning, this post get political!
On Thursday of this week it’s ‘National Coming Out Day’. Did you know that? Yep. Apparently we need a day in the calendar in which to tell our loved ones about our gender and sexual
Continue readingBelong is getting an online shop! For a long time now (2yrs!) I’ve wanted to add a shop to the Belong website and finally it’s here! Why a shop? I get many requests for my books from all
Continue readingAhh, the return to school. Welcomed by so many parents after the long summer break, but bringing with it a new set of issues to work on.
In today’s vlog I’m going to talk to you about the transition object that best supported my son in school.
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