What they DON'T tell you on prep groups!
This is a blog of the things we have learned as a new adoptive Mum and Dad to three children under the age of five. For 'Mum' you can read 'Dad' and 'parent'. It is also a record of some of the things no-one told us on the prep groups. Some of it is what children get up to in general and some of it is adoption-specific. Regardless, it should be an interesting read for any parent, prospective and adoptive. Feel free to add your comments, which I shall publish.
Showing posts with label social worker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social worker. Show all posts
13 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...listening to the children's social worker talk about your children and realising that they never really got to know them or their needs properly at all, because in the short time your children have been with you, you know everything the social worker has just told you about your children and their personality, is completely wrong
2 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...is having someone from Social Services probing you and asking very personal questions; knowing everything about you: mortgage, income, sex life - the lot!
31 Dec 2010
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...having a typical 30 minutes multi-tasking in the afternoon: keeping an eye on the children, refereeing squabbles, changing nappies, writing shopping lists, supervising loo trips, talking to social workers, confiscating toys - all whilst cooking the tea!
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