New toys and expensive parties aren’t the best way to show a child love – Jane Evans
In this article, Jane Evans reflects upon her new book Cyril Squirrel Finds Out About Love to discuss how we can help children aged 2-6 learn about the…
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Read an extract from Sophie Ashton’s The Secrets of Successful Adoptive Parenting
In this extract from The Secrets of Successful Adoptive Parenting, Sophie Ashton discusses how it is perfectly normal to feel emotionally overwhelmed soon after your child moves…
The emotional and behavioural challenges of adoptive parenting – Sophie Ashton
In this article Sophie Ashton, author of The Secrets of Successful Adoptive Parenting, talks reassuringly about the emotional challenges of adopting a child. It is quite common…
Yoga breathing exercise for foster carers, adopters and their families – Andrea Warman
Young Royals Kate, William and Harry promoted the Heads Together charity earlier this week with a campaign encouraging people to talk about mental health and…
Paolo Hewitt describes the talk he gave about growing up in Burbank Children’s Home
Paolo Hewitt, author of But We All Shine On and The Looked After Kid, was in Woking last week, the town of the children’s home in which he…
Supporting children with attachment difficulties in school – Nicola Marshall
In this article, Nicola Marshall, author of The Teacher’s Introduction to Attachment, reflects upon the role schools play in supporting children with attachment issues, and…
Capturing the darkness and the light in the lives of looked-after children
There are days when stories with perfect beginnings and perfect endings just don’t cut it at reading time- Ali Redford, author of The Boy Who Built…
The Adoption Checklist: Are You Ready?
L. Gianforte, co-author of Keeping Your Adoptive Family Strong: Strategies for Success, addresses the critical importance of reviewing whether or not you’re ready to adopt.…
Thoughts behind ‘The Music of Being’
In The Music of Being, Alison Levinge explains the approaches of key child development theorists and explores how they apply to and inform the practice…
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