Episode 122: Discovering Your Role as a Guide, Not a Hero
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Chris and Jihae Watson are just two of the “Watson Nine” as they affectionately call their family. Over half of their children have come by way of adoption and they have been foster parents for six years. In today’s episode, my friends share how their relationship started, the joys and hard lessons they’ve picked up along the way, how they manage such a large family, and the importance of our role as foster, adoptive, and biological parents. I can’t wait to share this conversation with you!
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | As a foster parent, it's very easy to immediately judge bio parents and say, hey, you know, what have you guys done to put your kids in this situation? |
| 0:32.8 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. I'm your host, Jamie Cabe, and I am so glad to be with you back |
| 0:39.9 | in the space again today. Whether you're part of the foster care community, passionate about serving, |
| 0:46.1 | or simply interested in learning more, we are here for you. I want to start off today's episode with a |
| 0:52.5 | question. How have you seen God show up in your life recently? |
| 0:57.1 | We live in a busy, busy world, don't we? |
| 0:59.5 | We have busy lives. |
| 1:00.9 | It is easy to miss the work God is doing around us, in us and through us. |
| 1:06.8 | So I want to encourage you to take a moment to pause, to be still, to reflect. How is God working in you? |
| 1:16.2 | Because even if it doesn't feel like it, I promise you he is. On today's episode, my guests are my new |
| 1:23.5 | friends, Chris and G. Hay Watson. They have fostered for six years and four of their children |
| 1:28.4 | were adopted. Today they share how they manage such a large family, how they learn not to |
| 1:34.4 | view themselves as the hero, and the joys and lessons they've picked up along their |
| 1:39.5 | fostering journey. This was a fun conversation and I can't wait to share it with you. So let's get to it. |
| 1:45.8 | Here is my conversation with Chris and G. Hay Watson. Well, Chris and G. Hey, I am so happy to have you |
| 1:56.9 | on the podcast today. I'm looking forward to talking more with you and for our listeners to hear |
| 2:01.8 | your story. So we're going to start right in with this. I want to know how you both met and how |
| 2:06.5 | you fell in love. Oh, man. It's a good story. Oh, right. So I grew up in Canada, but I was born in Korea. |
| 2:15.4 | And it's one of those funny things because people are always like, oh, you were born in Korea. And like in 1981, I don't know when they got rid of it, but |
| 2:22.1 | I feel super old saying that, like, back in the day, they still had those like laws that you |
| 2:27.1 | could only have two kids, you know, because they were overpopulated or whatever. And so my parents |
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