Recognising your Gifts
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 by Dr Keith J. WhiteMy first In Residence Column for the Children Webmag was in March 2000, just two issues after the very first electronic pages appeared. I was asked by the Editor to step into the shoes of my friend and colleague Barbara Kahan, and the idea was that I should write from my daily experience of living at Mill Grove. The columns were to be in essence a reflection on residential child care practice.
So although the magazine itself is celebrating its 100th monthly edition, I still have two more columns to go before I reach a century. And I am still here, continually stirred, surprised and challenged by the lives of individual children and young people, and also by the dynamics of our life together.
Learning from others
One of the youngsters who was here when I wrote my first column is now a young man and he still lives at Mill Grove. On reflection, I don
Tags: Child development, Residential care, Self awareness, Special needs
