A letter to parents (free access)
To past, present and future parents, I see you desperately trying to hold everything together, why would you trust me to hold you as well when you have fought and…
READ MOREAdoption Support Fund Update: Explaining the Fair Access Limit
In October 2016, after receiving more than double the applications they had anticipated, a fair access limit was introduced by the Adoption Support Fund (ASF). I think it is fair…...
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I’m worried my son will drive his friends away!
Hi, We have had our son for 5 years now (he is 8). Although things haven’t always been easy, we are on top of most of the problems and…...
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Why is my therapist seeing me and not my child? (Free Access)
As a relative newcomer to working with adoptive parents (albeit with lots of experience working with children and families in mainstream services), I have noticed this question coming-up a lot….
READ MORESally Donovan’s Adopter Blog (Apr 2015) Therapeutic Parenting: Where the Power Lies
No matter how therapeutically we parent, there are times when the word ‘no’ has to be said. ‘No’ can be about ‘no, that’s not safe’, or ‘no because that infringes…...
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Sally Donovan’s Adopter Blog (Mar 2015) Therapeutic Parenting: The Teenage Years
Something has changed in our family and it feels significant. Our eldest child who has for so long driven life here, is growing up. He has needed a lot from…...
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Sally Donovan’s Adopter Blog (Feb 2015) One “Behaviour” at a Time
Money is disappearing, food is disappearing, rudeness is rife, phones and tablets disappear at bedtime, school trousers come home plastered in mud and torn, the toilet isn’t flushed, the soap…...
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Sally Donovan’s Adopter Blog (Jan 2015): Playing the Long Game
Playing the Long Game Getting out of the house and experiencing the world safely is not straight-forward for families with children who have felt the keen wind of danger on…...
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Sally Donovan’s Adopter Blog (December 2014): Unexpected Earthquakes
For Mr D and me the journey from blind hopefulness to realistic acceptance has been littered with shocks, some of them earth-shattering, and we’re still not through the woods yet. …...
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Sally Donovan’s Adopter Blog (Nov ’14): Beige is the New Orange (FREE ACCESS)
Our house was falling apart, Shakin’ Stevens style; missing roof tiles, rotting windows, flaky paint and general shabbiness (not the chic type) have been taking hold whilst our attention and…...
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