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.
Santa: 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 readingIs therapeutic parenting the answer in fostering and adoption? #fostering #adoption #fostercare #socialwork #therapeuticparenting #belongts
Continue readingHow does being a therapeutic parent work when other, often non-therapeutic, services and professionals are involved in the care of your children?
This blog post explores the difficulties that arise when parenting children who need additional support.
When we try to parent therapeutically, we do so within the context of the world in which we live. But how helpful is this? #fostering #fostercare #adoption
Continue readingTherapeutic parenting is often presented as the answer to the problems of fostered and adopted young people. But is it instead just another quest for parenting perfection? Might it be another way in which we increase parenting shame?
Continue reading‘Therapeutic parenting’ has become the buzz term within fostering and adoption in recent years. but what does it really mean? This post explores a definition that’s helpful to parents and involved professionals.
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