Another busy month in the adoption and fostering blogosphere and the start of a new school term for many. The holidays may be over but hopefully too is the cold weather – was that sun we just had?? Bring on the summer – finally! Starting this week with Sarah from The Puffin Diaries who ran the [...]
About Maryam Lane
My own blog can be found at www.maryamlane.blogspot.co.uk and I am on Twitter @MaryamLane where I have been delighted to find a small but tight adoption and fostering community who like me, love to chat. If you have something that you would like to say about adoption, fostering, social work or any related area, please let me know and I will do my very best to include you in the round-up. Likewise if you spot a great post by a fellow blogger who really deserves a bit of a shout-out, please get in touch. I’ll be keeping out an eye each month for those in the blogosphere involved in adoption/fostering but if I miss anything you can contact me at maryam.lane@yahoo.co.uk , via Twitter or my blogAuthor Maryam Lane
Adoption & Fostering: Mother’s Day, support and gut feelings
Its been a busy and interesting month for most of the adoption and fostering bloggers….not least because we had a big day this month: Mother’s Day. Its a day many of us looked forward to for a long time – years trying to have children or going through Approval and awaiting that match. When your [...]
Adoption & Fostering: Contact & responsibility
This is my first round-up of 2013. Last month the very lovely Vicki at The Boy’s Behaviour guest-edited the round-up for me, which was wonderful to get a new pair of eyes on the Adoption and Fostering blogosphere. It was also great for me as I seem to be increasingly up to my eyes in [...]
National Adoption Week, lifestory work and Morrisons
Read all the Adoption/Fostering Round-ups This month we had National Adoption Week (NAW) 5th-11th November. It’s a week devoted to raising adoption awareness and addressing misconceptions, spreading ideas and support. A lot of bloggers were very active and BAAF (British Association for Adoption and Fostering) who hosted the week, called for Adoption Champions – [...]
Adoption and fostering round-up: Attachment, first time meetings and last goodbyes
Attachment. A very key word to any parent but not least for any adoptive parent or foster parent. Attachment forms the basis of the parent-child bond. It’s vital for developing a healthy relationship with the Caregiver and a healthy attachment with Mum or Dad will in turn help the child to form positive relationships [...]
Adoption & Fostering Round-up: Gay adoption & Mummy don’t go
This month I am delighted to say that I have found some new bloggers to feature, on this the third ever Adoption/Fostering round-up. September is here (boo hiss) and whilst many of us breathe a sigh of relief at the return of school, others are nervous and some of us a bit sad – [...]
BritMums Live 2013
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Anya from Older Single Mum: Hope you have a lovely time Marianne. Will keep ev...
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jennie: I am so looking forward to this session. Last year...
