There is a move within the UK to stop using the term ‘foster carer’ and instead embrace the words ‘foster parent’. This blog explores the benefits of such a move and considers how the way we define our relationship may impact our young people.
Continue readingEmpathy is often seen as something to focus on within therapeutic parenting. Developing a child’s ability to understand other people’s thoughts and feeling is clearly going to have benefits but is empathy really the key to appropriate child development?
Could focusing on empathy alone actually cause issues for foster-adopt children and their parents?
This blog considers that it might be.
For eleven years, mother’s day has been challenging for my foster-adopt family. This blog post explores the different stages we went through as a family to reach a point where our parent-child relationships could indeed be celebrated.
Continue readingShould a 15 year old radicalised child be allowed to return to the UK? What can we learn from previous cases and other countries about how we address criminal behaviour in our young people. What might a therapeutic approach look like? Here’s my thoughts…
Continue readingFriendships are important to us all and yet they can be such a struggle to children who have been adopted or are living in foster care.
Here’s a blog about 5 reasons why this might be the case.
Continue readingHow you ever felt that maybe you just aren’t good-enough as a parent? That maybe fostering or adopting was not the right choice for you and in hindsight you realise that you just don’t have
Continue readingI used to think it was good practice to offer a fresh start to a child who had misbehaved. Now I feel differently. I think we can be much more therapeutic by not doing so. Read this blog to find our why.
Continue readingAs the new foster-adopt film Instant Family continues to be shown in cinemas across the country, here is my thoughts as a foster-adopt parent
Continue readingWhen I asked for ideas of what topics they would most like me to cover on this new blog, trauma rages came out as the most popular option. This isn’t surprising. The most popular post
Continue readingHello and welcome to my new fostering and adoption blog. Here’s how this blog came about and what I’m hoping it will achieve.
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