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.
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 readingOn 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 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 readingIdentity – what losing my hair taught me about #fostering and #adoption
Continue readingSince when did mobile phones and games consoles become a necessity? Here’s a what a child really needs in order not to feel neglected…..
Continue readingI love holidays but as a foster-adopt parent I have found myself on many occasions defending my choice to occasionally holiday without my child. This blog post and video explain why holiday with my kids aren’t a break for me.
Continue readingBonding with a fostered or adopted child isn’t easy. Here are 10 factors that might cause issues for parents #fostering #fostercare #adoption
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