My story Archives - https://belongts.com/category/my-story/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:24:05 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.belongts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-Belong-2-1-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 My story Archives - https://belongts.com/category/my-story/ 32 32 140744513 How We Turned Our Son’s Food Issues Into His Career! https://belongts.com/food-issues/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:44:50 +0000 http://www.belongts.com/?p=931 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.

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]]> 931 5 Reasons Santa May Be Scary for Foster-Adopt Children https://belongts.com/santa/ https://belongts.com/santa/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:00:00 +0000 http://www.belongts.com/?p=597 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.

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]]> https://belongts.com/santa/feed/ 0 597 10 Reasons School Festive Fun is Difficult for Foster-Adopt Children https://belongts.com/school-xmas/ https://belongts.com/school-xmas/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:00:00 +0000 http://www.belongts.com/?p=594 Nativity 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.

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]]> https://belongts.com/school-xmas/feed/ 0 594 That Time I Thought Attachment Theory Was Nonsense! https://belongts.com/attachment-nonsense/ https://belongts.com/attachment-nonsense/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2019 20:53:39 +0000 http://www.belongts.com/?p=935 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,

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]]> https://belongts.com/attachment-nonsense/feed/ 0 935 The Trauma Of Coming Out As LGBTQ To Our Children. https://belongts.com/coming-out/ https://belongts.com/coming-out/#respond Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:42:51 +0000 http://www.belongts.com/?p=929 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

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]]> https://belongts.com/coming-out/feed/ 0 929 Is Therapeutic Parenting the New Quest for Perfection? https://belongts.com/perfection/ https://belongts.com/perfection/#respond Mon, 12 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000 http://www.belongts.com/?p=591 Therapeutic 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?

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]]> https://belongts.com/perfection/feed/ 0 591 Identity: What Losing My Hair Has Taught Me About Fostering and Adoption. https://belongts.com/identity/ https://belongts.com/identity/#respond Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:00:00 +0000 http://www.belongts.com/?p=860 Identity - what losing my hair taught me about #fostering and #adoption

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]]> https://belongts.com/identity/feed/ 0 860 One Thing Your Child Really Needs https://belongts.com/play/ https://belongts.com/play/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:38:46 +0000 http://www.belongts.com/?p=755 Since when did mobile phones and games consoles become a necessity? Here's a what a child really needs in order not to feel neglected.....

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]]> https://belongts.com/play/feed/ 0 755 Taking Childless Holidays as Foster-Adopt Parents https://belongts.com/childless-holidays/ https://belongts.com/childless-holidays/#respond Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:35:13 +0000 http://www.belongts.com/?p=742 I 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.

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]]> https://belongts.com/childless-holidays/feed/ 0 742 10 Bonding Issues for Foster & Adoptive Parents https://belongts.com/bonding-issues/ https://belongts.com/bonding-issues/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000 http://www.belongts.com/?p=800 Bonding 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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