tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215180739711088694.post7214082202752214058..comments2023-09-13T07:12:42.335-07:00Comments on Two Mums. Two Kids?: Life story work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215180739711088694.post-11975766872374201472014-03-23T13:38:24.441-07:002014-03-23T13:38:24.441-07:00It's really interesting, we were recently look...It's really interesting, we were recently looking at photos of our foster son from just before he moved in with us, and he looked so thin, small and pale. You'd never know it nearly 6 months on - he's filled out, muscly and very tall for his age.<br /><br />Sadly I'm not surprised that your daughter's life story book is so poor. The one or two that I've seen in person have been severely lacking too - bits of clip art, wonky pasted in photos, random pages printed out from wikipedia about towns of birth etc. These have also been delayed so long you'd think someone had been taking the time to do it properly. It's so sad that adoptive and permanent foster families need to do the work themselves to make something that's presentable and appropriate for the child, when so often they don't even have all the information.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15520496269318918677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215180739711088694.post-69884127190265891432014-03-23T13:12:25.227-07:002014-03-23T13:12:25.227-07:00Don't write shorter blogs! I love your newsy, ...Don't write shorter blogs! I love your newsy, varied, long ones :-) It's so sad that your life story book isn't good enough - I've heard this over and over again. I haven't even received OB's yet, nearly a year after the adoption was finalised. I spoke last night to the adoptive Mummy of a child I fostered last year and she said that her book (from our LA) was no good and she's having to make her own, so I'm not holding out much hope that ours, if it ever arrives, will really be worth having. I think as teachers, we take it for granted that we have the skills to make something attractive, accessible, presentable and appropriate for the age group, but perhaps these skills are not so widespread. At our LA I'm pretty sure that the books are actually created by admin staff who must have so many other things to do as well, so I'm not sure they get the attention they really deserve. Have more than once considered offering myself to the LA as a freelance Life Story Book writer! Of course confidentiality issues would never allow it, although I'm sure it would be cheaper to outsource.Rebecca Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03323122949121536943noreply@blogger.com