BONUS: Navigating Birth Parent Relationships
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
As foster or adoptive parents, we often feel at a loss of how to help our kids process the complexity of emotions surrounding their birthparents. In today’s special edition episode, you will hear a message that our host, Jami Kaeb, gave to a group of foster and adoptive parents this past Spring at CAFO 2019 Summit. Listen in as Jami focuses on 3 areas: helping your child process their feelings about their birth parents, caring for and pursuing a relationship with your child’s birth parent, and creating and maintaining healthy boundaries.
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| 0:00.0 | meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey this is the forgotten podcast we were driving we went to stake and shake |
| 0:15.7 | and as we were getting ready to leave a huge storm just up, a storm that you don't want to drive in. |
| 0:21.3 | And so we were sitting in the car for a little bit. And Clint said, hey, have you guys ever |
| 0:25.4 | heard the story about Jesus in the storm in the Bible? They knew nothing about it. And so he had |
| 0:32.8 | this opportunity to share. And that's what relationship does. It opens the door to share about Jesus, the most |
| 0:40.5 | important relationship that we can have. |
| 0:50.4 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome to a special edition episode of the Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:56.5 | Whether you're part of the foster care community, passionate about serving or simply interested |
| 1:01.5 | in learning more, we are here for you. |
| 1:04.8 | Today we are bringing you something different from the norm. |
| 1:07.3 | This past spring, I gave a message to a group of foster and adoptive parents to |
| 1:11.6 | help them navigate birth parent relationships and in it I highlighted three areas |
| 1:16.6 | number one helping your child process their feelings about their birth parents |
| 1:20.6 | number two caring for and pursuing a relationship with your child's birth parent |
| 1:25.6 | and number three creating and maintaining healthy boundaries with birth parents. |
| 1:32.1 | Before we head to that message, you can find a link to helpful resources, including a very |
| 1:36.9 | special resource created specifically for this message, and also catch up on past episodes, |
| 1:42.1 | all at the forgottenpodcast.org. And I would love it if you would share today's episode with your people. Tag us on Facebook and Instagram when you do. All right, are you ready? Let's go to my message given at the 2019 Christian Alliance for Orphans Conference. |
| 2:10.6 | Well, for us, not long after we adopted our seventh child, our son Friday, from Uganda, |
| 2:22.1 | we told our kids around dinner one night, listen, guys, unless the Lord tells us very, very clearly clearly we are done adopting there will be no more kids added to the cave family and our little leila who was seven at the time and also joined our |
| 2:27.4 | family through adoption she piped right up and she said phew i'm sure glad i made it in time |
| 2:32.7 | i used to be afraid of it Phew, I'm sure glad I made it in time. |
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