YorkshireBirdYou know your fostering journey is a success when you get a birthday card from your 20yr old foster daughter with this message inside.
#Fostering #FosteringFamily #FosterDaughter #FosterCarer #TheJobThatNeverEnds #Love #Family
This is quite simply the best card I have ever received.
We’ve been her family since she was 10, she’s now almost 21, in third year of uni and has secured a job as a social worker starting in July.
She’s also the most amazing, resilient, strongest, determined young woman I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.
Helping our foster son to emotionally decompress after a night in respite care. Sometimes the comedown for him makes me question whether we’re right to use respite care but being a full time foster carer for an emotionally vulnerable child takes it’s toll. Respite helps us to help him.
Jonokli#FosterCarer #Parenting Life
YP: I've had a really bad poo
Me: No problem let me just calmly deal with the situation.. What have we learnt here?
YP:
Me: Don't lick the...
YP: Windows
Me Or?
YP: the wall
Me: or?
YP:...
Me: the electrical box outside school
YP: yeah.
YP: I've had a really bad poo
Me: No problem let me just calmly deal with the situation.. What have we learnt here?
YP:
Me: Don't lick the...
YP: Windows
Me Or?
YP: the wall
Me: or?
YP:...
Me: the electrical box outside school
YP: yeah.
@StrugglingDad Welcome from a Dad of 3 young'uns and a #FosterCarer to 15 and counting. Don't make that think I've in some way 'got it together' - I don't! Keep talking friend! #Parenting #Dads
10 years today since our #Additions joined our family. What a 10 years it’s been. Some of you have been with us since the beginning and shared our journey. The journey isn’t over yet, here’s to another 10 years.
#FosterFamily #Fostering #FosterCarer #ChildrenInCareAreStillChildren
One day it'll be OK to write about today, and it'll be worth doing so if only for my own sanity.
Until then it's just another day in the crazy life of an emergency #fostercarer #fostering 😢
Until then it's just another day in the crazy life of an emergency #fostercarer #fostering 😢
Really interesting article on ITV News about the rising costs for foster carers and the fact that allowances haven’t gone up for TEN YEARS.
It’s a disgrace. Foster carers need support.
Who cares for the carers?
The John Lewis ad …
Many, many tears were shed last night when I first saw it.
This was our Christmas 2012.
Children in care are STILL children.