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Fosterman

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Fosterman is a father and a fostercarer. He's fun loving and has ample of experience to provide any newbie carer with insight and know-how.

Fosterman Foster Carer and James Blog

Booted n Suited Blog

Fostering Blogger – Fosterman Counting down to the end of the exams now, it can’t come quick enough for James (name changed). But we had a lovely weekend. It was my granddaughter’s christening, over in Surrey so we had a

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Fosterman Foster Carer and James Blog

Problem Foster Care Blog

Fostering Blogger – Fosterman We are on the finishing straight now regarding exams and you can see that James (name changed) is running out of steam. It’s been a very hard few weeks for him, for one reason or another,

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Less Ordinary Family

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Harriet is a birth mum of two teenage daughters and a fostercarer to a disbled girl called Alice. With her husband, Charlie by her side, they navigate the waters of a less ordinary family lifestyle.

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

Fostering Blog | Tricky Alice

Fostering Blog Monday’s Blog Today Alice has been up to her old tricks again. She has gone “fishing” again. What we mean by this is that she is looking for a fight or a reaction – it’s like she has

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

Fostering Blog | Lifting Alice

Thursday’s Fostering Blog It’s getting to that busy time of year as get nearer to Christmas. Our two birth children break up from school at the end of the second week of December. To me this is crazy – having

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Emma’s Fostering Days

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Emma’s Fostering days blog are by an experienced foster carer who gives you an honest and revealing insight into the ups and downs of foster care. A great resource for other carers and those interested in becoming carers.

Lovely language

Emma’s Fostering Blog. Dinner September – Charlie is 7 and I’m beginning to establish a good routine and boundaries, but I am finding the attention seeking, ‘in your face’ type behaviours difficult to ignore. He is constantly ?dgety and anxious,

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Fostering Holiday

Emma’s Fostering Blog Holiday With the New Year comes the thought about holidays. I always make sure I get a letter from the Social worker in plenty of time, arranging permission, getting paperwork signed; obtaining passports and overcoming any legal

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Helen's Fostering Journey

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Helen is new to Foster Carer. After along time thinking about taking the leap Helen and partner get stuck in with there first placement(s). Insight into their journey.

Our First Foster Children

Helen’s Fostering Blog. Last Minute Preparations Before the Children Arrived. When I woke up that morning and I knew my life was about to change, I was also acutely aware that wasn’t just how I would be feeling today. I

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First Evening

Helen’s Fostering Blog First Evening Together The two children that arrived on that first day have changed so much in the last 14 months. So much so its hard to think of them as the same children. When they first

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