: About Me

I am a single parent with three kids. I grew up in Liverpool, where I was adopted as a child.

At 16 I left my home town and moved into a hostel in Birmingham. I count my blessings for the kindness of complete strangers who took me under their wing. To them I owe everything. My life could of took a very different path left to my own devices!

I was lucky enough to get a placement scheme almost straight away. Which was the begin of many years working with disadvantaged teenagers.

I got married at 18, way, way too young. No regrets though because it gave me my three kids.

Life as a single mum has meant that i have done every job imaginable to provide for them. My children have all now left school though none of them have any intentions of leaving home this century.

Along with the usual rigors of life I spent 20 years searching for my birth mum and my identity. My search ended a year ago when I found her.

As the saying goes, when one door closes another opens. Well I'm now going through the door of coming to terms with everything the search unearthed.

Ive reached the point now where i am doing what i want to do. My writing. I'm loving it. Writing has been my best friend and confidant though out my life.

I hope Ive given you a brief insight into my life but if anyone wants to ask me any questions then just say and i will do my best to answer you. You can email me at much2say@gmail.com

See more of me at.http://www.booksie.com/much2say

My passion is ...

writing

I know too much about ...

supermarket trollies

My parents always told me ...

in words I couldn't hear

My childhood ambition ...

to be a princess

My favorite memory ...

caravan holiday Wales

Why I write ...

words stay longer than a voice

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling Specials Too much Too young

My first job ...

saturday at Woolies

My best moment ...

Meeting my real mum after searching for 24 years

My inspiration ...

Antwone Fisher

Parenting & Pregnancy > Adoption How to help adopted children grieve

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There are no simple answers when it comes to helping your adopted child grieve. We all face grief at some point in our lives, how best we cope with it very much depends on the support around us. It is automatic to want to heal the pain of grief in our child. As an adoptive parent you will want to provide that same love and understanding to your adopted child. This is where your needs and wants may well differ from what the child wants and needs. When you adopt a child undoubtedly, you want to feel the child is truly yours. Equal in every way. No different from if you had given birth to the...

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