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Djavu Alice

Fostering Alice Blog Wednesday. Today we went to visit the Urodynamic team at the Children’s Hospital. This is the department that looks after the bladder and bowels. After a recent bout of Urinary tract infections, the urodynamic team have asked

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Fostering blog | Precious moments

Fostering Alice Blog Monday. I always learned that patience was a virtue. I know that teaching this to kids is incredible difficult and teaching it to our foster daughter has been almost impossible. It seems there’s just no fun in

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Protecting Alice

Fostering Alice Blog Saturday. Today we all watched Paddington 2 on DVD. We have been waiting to see it for a few weeks and finally got round to it today. We are always quite careful about watching these kind of

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Weighing up risk

Fostering Blog – Alice Monday. What a crazy week. We have gone from having a heatwave to returning to the arctic. We started with a panic to find sun cream, sun hats and extra water bottles for school to finding

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Fostering Alice – Failing parents

Fostering Alice Blog. Monday. With all the focus on Alice at the end of last week and over the weekend, I hadn’t realised how much I had neglected Annie and Lauren. I know I have pretty much left them to

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Fostering Alice – Gatekeeping

Alice – Fostering Blog Friday. Always expect the unexpected! Just when life seems to be on an even keel, the rug gets swept out from underneath. No sooner had the words ‘things seemed to have really settle down for Alice’

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Floating Boats

Alice – Fostering Blog Wednesday. We have had my Aunt to stay for a few days over the Easter break. Often having visitors (particularly ones to stay) causes lots of extra issues with Alice. Her attachment issues normally go into

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Easter eggs

Fostering Alice Blog. Sunday. Today is Easter Day!! I have decided today to relax a little and not worry too much about the girls chocolate consumption!! I may have had that thought a little too soon, as when we arrived

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Social etiquette

Fostering Blog Thursday. Easter could not have come soon enough. I was surprised how early it was this year, and how short the half half term was. Although the term has been short it has felt like it has dragged.

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Casual disregard

Alice – Fostering Blog. Saturday. I was sad to read in the news this morning that Frank Gardner a BBC News correspondent was left stranded on an airplane at Heathrow airport when his wheelchair could not be located. When his

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Happy Places

Alice – Fostering Blog Thursday. It is never dull in a fostering household. If there isn’t a drama occurring with your foster child or your own birth children, then it will be something in your own life. This week Charlie

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Fulltime Foster Carer - Harriet author of: A Less Ordinary Family
A Less Ordinary Family

Nervousited!

Alice – Fostering Blog Monday We bumped into some old friends a few weeks back, they were just about to be approved to become foster carers. They got in touch this morning to tell us that they had been unanimously

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