We are fostering

Birth children in foster families have to share their homes and parents with new arrivals who may come with varying problems and needs. A considerable period of adjustment as well as significant parental attention may be required to help foster children settle in to their new family. Birth children in this situation may well feel angry and resentful at having to share toys, space and their parents' love.

We are fostering is a life story workbook that will help birth children to know themselves, their history and their role in the family. There is information about what fostering, adoption, and getting "approved" before having children to stay, mean. Working through this book will help prepare birth children to welcome new arrivals into their homes and lives. There is even a certificate of achievement at the end, awarded for completing the book 'and for all the help and support you have given to other children'.

There is space for drawings, photographs, documents and a record of feelings and thoughts at various stages in the process.

This easy to use and imaginative resource is ideal to help birth children in families who will be fostering to understand themselves and their place in their family, along with what it means to be adopted or fostered.