Is It My Fault Mummy?
A heart-breaking and inspiring collection of true stories from the nation’s favourite foster carer
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Is It My Fault Mummy?
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Penelope McDonald
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Maggie Hartley
Seven-year-old Paris is trapped in a prison of guilt. Devastated after the death of her baby brother, Joel, Maggie faces one of her most heartbreaking cases yet as she tries to break down the wall of guilt surrounding this damaged little girl.
A DESPERATE CRY FOR HELP
Twelve-year-old Meg arrives at Maggie's after a fire destroys the children's home she's been living in. Traumatised by the fire and angry and vulnerable, having been put into care by her mother, Meg is lashing out at everyone around her. Can Maggie reach this damaged little girl before it's too late? And before Meg's destructive behaviour puts Maggies life - and the lives of the other children in her care - at risk?
These heartwarming and inspiring short stories show the power of a foster mother's love, and her determination to help the children who come into her care.
True stories of hope from Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie Hartley, a foster carer for over 20 years.
*Two of these stories have previously been published as individual ebooks*
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good book with great narrator
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I really enjoyed it
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brilliant
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I didn't know that foster parents were on call. I didn't know they dealt with children whose parents were in hospital because of a sore back, or car accidents. However I did know they dealt with abandoned/neglected/difficult children.
I'm of two minds about Maggie. On the one hand the book is written in simple terms, she's not exactly creative with the vocabulary. She uses terms like X was genuinely. y must have been terrifying etc often. It is true that in spoken language we are limited to a tiny amount of the myriad of words we know. However, when writing we have carte blanche to be as bombastic and facetious as desired. On the other hand Maggie shows exceptional skill and intelligence in dealing with children through distraction and whilst she knows who did the fire, her fighting for the foster childs corner is the sort of action that turns kids round.
She's doing god's work
Maggie the spiritfarer
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The first story is really sweet and moving. A small girl is badly neglected by her drug addict mother and her baby brother has come to grief. Maggie helps her find a happy ending.
The second one is about a troubled preteen with a history of disturbed behaviour who has been involved in a fire. But nice but far too naive Maggie seems to have no clue why her garden shed suddenly catches fire shortly after her adult daughter's lighter suddenly goes missing... 🙄 And she seems to have no idea it might be connected to the new disturbed girl's presence. The girl is plainly using fire as a self harm/comfort mechanism to self-soothe regarding her troubled attachment issues with her mother which are immediately obvious from the girl's feelings about her. It's so annoyingly, blundingly obvious to the reader (I too have over 20 years experience in childcare) what has happened and whose fault it is!! FFS. "I couldn't imagine how frightening it must be for her to be involved in another fire so soon after her children's home burned down". Come on luv!!! Don't be so thick!!!! 😬😬😬 Finally the penny drops. "I had no idea she was going to do this!" Maggie wails naively. (Well duh!!!)
"I'm sure it was just an isolated incident". (Seriously?) And she STILL thinks the girl had nothing to do with the mysterious fire at her children's home....
The 3rd story involves a teenager who can't take care of herself and constantly forgets everything, including what's just been said to her. From the description of the first few days, “special-needs" started screaming really loudly and obviously at me, especially after she got lost on the way to work, left the front door open and almost flooded the place after forgetting a bath was running. Her excuse, "my brain just gets really muddled sometimes and I don't remember" screamed "LEARNING DISABILITY!!" at me - but nice, dim Maggie still persisted in thinking she was just absent-minded!
By the time she'd impulsively posted her clothes allowance into a charity box, had a tantrum then immediately forgot about it, seemed unable to focus on even the TV for more than 10 minutes, and then left the gas running, I'd diagnosed ADD or FAS. But Maggie was still thinking she was a typical scatty teenager, if harder work than most. Come on dear!!! She's never been assessed, get it done now!!!
Finally, they found out that Rebecca's birth mother was an alcoholic, and it filtered through Maggie's brain that she had Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Incredibly naive fosterer!!
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