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Help! Is this what you’re saying to social care?
Our members often find it difficult to get much in terms of support from the various services. We wonder if the following letter, written...
Jul 26, 2018


Reflecting on Christmas
Its a chilly grey afternoon in early January and we have finished off the Quality Street and the last piece of shortbread. The relatives...
Jan 13, 2018


New venture with a BLOG.
We are very excited to announce that we have begun a regular weekly blog of: articles, reflections, blog diaries and information...
Apr 3, 2017


Sally Donovan’s Article
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...
Mar 6, 2016


Therapeutic reparenting adopted teens
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
May 31, 2014


Welcome to all parents of teens (and post teens) adopted in the UK
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
May 21, 2014
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