The drugs were in the way I see in hindsight, but at the time I didn’t because I’d ‘I always felt like my family was different and “less done that since I was 14, way before I was a mum. [...] And I remember I had a tear in my eye and I thought, Fiona’s experience “Oh my gosh, I don’t even have common sense.” It was due to my past traumatic path. [...] had done it before, and gone back and gone Then it became a pattern so ingrained in me that back and gone back, and then had two more I didn’t even know I was doing it to the point that I kids with him. [...] Flick’s advice ‘Ask yourself: “Am I OK with this? Am I OK with ‘So I had to again, get into therapy and work out my parenting? Am I OK with the way I’m living?” and find a way – how do I emotionally connect Because there’s always this gut thing that to my own emotions so I could be emotionally something’s not right, but we go against that, right? available for my children? I had to look out for wh. [...] It was being able to finally have my own mum tuck me in at night and tell me she loves me, not – What kind of parent would you like to be? somebody who had to play that role when all I wanted and cried for at the end of the – What is getting in the way of being the day was a family just like everyone else’s parent you want to be? that had their mum and dad at the end of each and every day.
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Table of Contents
- Before you start ... 1
- Voices of lived experience 1
- Language notes Parents 1
- What is good enough parenting 1
- What can get in the way of good enough parenting 2
- Quick tips 2
- Keep learning 2
- Ask yourself some tough questions and answer as honestly as possible 2
- We parent as best as we can with what we know at the time but that doesnt mean we cant learn more. Were always learning. 3
- Fionas experience 3
- Flicks experience 3
- Our stories Our stories 3
- Content warning 3
- What good enough parenting means to us 3
- Rachaels experience 3
- Fionas experience 4
- Flicks experience 4
- What got in the way of good enough parenting for us 4
- Rachaels experience 4
- Flicks experience 5
- What supported us to make changes to the way we parented 5
- Rachaels experience 5
- Fionas experience 5
- Some things we think might be helpful for other families to know 6
- Rachaels advice 6
- Fionas advice 6
- Flicks advice 6
- A young persons story Reconnecting with family after being returned home 7
- Take a moment to think about... 7
- Support for moving towards good enough parenting 7
- Urgent support 7
- Helpful parenting resources 7
- More connection and belonging resources 8
- Emerging Minds Families 8
