Talking about how Potato members often face crisis with their traumatised adopted young people and the professionals lack capacity to...

Yes, now you’ve got that 90s classic zipping through your head- have a read of this weeks excellent blog. Listen here: Moving on up,...

Founder member and chair of POTATO is to appear on the Victoria Derbyshire BBC2 programme. Together with fellow experienced adoptive...

Our Chairperson has been in touch with the Childrens Society and because we have a lot of common ground we felt you all might like to get...

It’s Sunday and the roar of Sally Donovan has begun to die down. She did a great article in this weeks “Community Care” and there has...

OK readers!  I have 2 adopted teenagers who were at infants school when they came to me. Now, wow 19 and 16, how did that happen? Now we are 13 years in and have been through hell, high-waters and more hell and some lovely picnics on the way. Our strength here in the land of POTATO is our stories and here’s a chance to spill! Parenting therapeutically as I understand it is basically the behaviours of your teen as their language, to go with your grasp of the situation as havin

We are a UK based group of parents who have adopted our children from the looked after system in the past 20+ years. All of our teenagers are incredible survivors who need specialist parenting which can be very hard going. Despite dealing with some heavy subjects, we like to meet socially and have a bit of relaxation with other parents who understand what we are facing. We are looking forward to the easing of restrictions which will enable this to happen again. These pages ar