Different Traumas in Fostering & Adoption
Trauma: difficult to experience, difficult to define. Here’s some trauma terms that may be helpful to those living and working within #fostering and #adoption.
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Why I Don’t Promise Permanency to Foster-Adopt Children.
Children need to belong. But how do we talking about belonging in fostering and adoption without making promises we may not be able to keep. Can we offer permanence in a way that relieves a child’s anxiety without causing further distress if they have to move on from us? Read more to find out. #fostering #adoption
Continue readingWhen Empathy Isn’t Enough in Fostering and Adoption
Empathy 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.
My First Mother’s Day in Over a Decade!
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 reading5 Reasons Foster-Adopt Children Find Friendships Hard
Friendships 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 readingMy New Book for Foster & Adoptive Parents
How 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 reading10 Reasons ‘Fresh Starts’ Don’t Work in Fostering & Adoption
I 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 readingInstant Family – A Foster-Adopt Movie Review
As 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 reading10 Therapeutic Approaches to Trauma Rages
When 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
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