Adoption and fostering thought provoking posts

Welcome to the Britmums round up of adoption and fostering blogs. Vicki and I, who pull together this round up, also run a website call The Adoption Social, where we have a weekly link up called The Weekly Adoption Shout Out #WASO. There are always lots of great blog posts that link up every Friday and we share some of them with you here. We also publish our top 3 from the previous month and I thought it would be a good idea to share those with you here too. So to start, here they are:-

Sarah

Very clever, drawing parallels between household renovations and the making of a fostering and adoption family “As we live life, we might feel compelled to hang signs around our children’s necks declaring that they are under construction, that the damage was not done by us, nor is it the children’s fault.”

There are meltdowns, and then there are meltdowns. I feel very supportive of this blogger and adoptive parent for bravely saying enough and sharing openly their experiences.

Whilst this post has a very important message, about the things you shouldn’t say to adopted children, it did remind me of some of the many sticky situations we found ourselves in during the early days of our adopted family, which could now be seen as a little bit funny.

Vicki

My first Top 3 this month is from The Hopeful Dad. I’m looking forward to reading more from this new blogger about the journey this couple is on to become a family.

Depression is a very real and very current issue for me, and CBT is something that I’m investigating, so this post from Families Tied was very interesting for me to read.

This is a post about love. I’ll say no more than that – just read it.

Of course we see a lot of blogs through #WASO, BUT if you know of an adoption or fostering blog which we may not be aware of, please let us know.

Moving on with a post from Brave Heart Education. Nicola always manages to write something inspirational or thought provoking and this post is no different. She asks what song are you singing?

It’s great to see someone vlogging about adoption, here, The Girl behind the Camera talks things you worry about after adoption.

Next to National Adoption Week, a week when the government focus on recruiting adopters for the many children in care requiring new loving families. Rightly or wrongly, this week has very little to do with those who are already adopters or even those who have been adopted. In answer to this The Open Nest charity held a conference where all the speakers were adult adoptees. A number of people chose to write about this conference and the week, here’s a selection.

All Aboard the Trauma Train – Adopted Voices Conference Outcomes

Adoption Radical Reform- Thoughts from Adopted Voice conference

2 New Girls –Their Voices

Lushlife7 – National Adoption Week – New adopters Advice

I’m still finding this blog from a former child of foster care so insightful, this post looks at knowing about your person history.

I have also recently discovered this collection of blogs from US foster Carers.

Unfortunately there are always adopted families out there having a tough time these two post are now exception. Let’s all send them strength and well wishes to Precious Stones and Adopter Called X

Finally let’s finish on a good note, it’s great to welcome back this blogger, who now has the approval of her little man, to carry on.

Thank you all for reading and please let me know if you know of blogs we might not be reading.

About Sarah Puffin Diaries

Sarah is the adoptive mum of two boys behind The Puffin Diaries. Her blog is full of the highs and lows of her family life, writing about adoption, living with depression her love of cooking and all things creative plus lots of photography. Sarah is also co-founder of The Adoption Social, a site which promotes and supports the adoption on-line community.