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My mum wants to become a foster carer and she wants to look after children in her large countryside home.
She said she's planning to give-up her long-time job this year in organising meetings and typing-up the minutes and notes from doctors meetings she attends on behalf of the National Health Service.
She said that in her new planned role as a foster carer, she may be looking after children whose parents are drug addicts, children who have abusive parents, or children and young adults who are refugees.
She said some of them may be kids and some of them may be young adults... some of them may only require a temporary home for a few weeks or months.... some may need a home for longer.
She said she's completed long assessment questionnaires and undergone long interviews. The weekly money that is paid to foster carers for each child or young adult that they look after is good. My mum said she wants to spend more time at home and do something in life that will be rewarding and make others feel happy.
She said that me and my sisters will be contacted soon over the phone by the people who interviewed her - to ask us on how our childhoods were... and to provide references on if we see our mother as being loving and caring.
My grandmother used to hand-knit lots of beautiful clothes when she was alive. She spent months making such beautiful hand-made clothes that she donated to orphaned children in Romania. My mother helped to make clothes for orphaned babies and children in eastern Europe.
My sister looks after elderly people in a care home... and I look after lots of dogs, and feed birds each day like my grandmother did. The maternal side of my family all like caring roles.
I know Angelina Jolie adopted a lot of children who get along well with her own children.
How would you feel if your parent(s) decided to foster and look after children, teenagers, and young adults (orphans and refugees) in their home... who are strangers and who aren't related to you? Would you feel anxious or concerned that you may lose some of their attention when the refugees and/or orphans move into your parents home?
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