Dealing with communication & silence – Eastern Fostering Services
Lucy Stevens - 8th November 2017
There are all sorts of behaviours that foster carers have to deal as they care for children. These range from swearing to bedwetting, smearing to sexualised behaviour, destroying everything in sight to screaming and shouting the house down. A carer dealing with behaviours like these could easily be forgiven for wanting a little peace and quiet. But silence from a child can be equally draining. Prolonged silence from a child is a bit like hitting the metaphorical wall that runners refer to. It is a barrier that hurts, overwhelms and which at times feels insurmountable. Silence is golden Generally, I believe silence is a good thing, a powerful thing – a way of sticking it to this relentlessly unsilent
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