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.
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
Continue readingBelong is getting an online shop! For a long time now (2yrs!) I’ve wanted to add a shop to the Belong website and finally it’s here! Why a shop? I get many requests for my books from all
Continue readingAhh, the return to school. Welcomed by so many parents after the long summer break, but bringing with it a new set of issues to work on.
In today’s vlog I’m going to talk to you about the transition object that best supported my son in school.
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Is 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?
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