Episode 123: Trauma-Informed Parenting: Building Connections With Your Child
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Does your child ever just get on your last nerve? Have you had a meltdown of your own after a really hard day? Does it feel like your parenting techniques that have worked with other kids in your care just aren't working anymore? As parents, we’ve all experienced this more times than we would care to count. When our kids have significant trauma in their past, and we have our own triggers from our past, it can make for a really challenging journey.
Ryan and Kayla North know firsthand what that is like! They have 10 years under their belt as foster parents and today they develop training and programs on childhood trauma. Join me as Ryan and Kayla share perspective shifts we need when raising kids with traumatic backgrounds, how our own childhood trauma may be impacting our relationship with our kids, practical ways to parent with connection as the primary goal, why we can’t care for our children if we’re not caring for ourselves, and so much more. This was such a rich episode, and I look forward to hearing what stands out most to you!
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | When you get our kids who've experienced trauma and then you get parents who've experienced trauma |
| 0:14.6 | and then you put them in a relationship together, it can be explosive. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello. together, it can be explosive. Hello, my friends, it's Jamie Cabe and I want to welcome you back to the forgotten |
| 0:30.0 | podcast, whether you are part of the foster care community, passionate about serving |
| 0:35.4 | or simply interested in learning more. It is so good to have you here. |
| 0:40.9 | What incredible conversations we have had this season and today marks the last episode of |
| 0:48.1 | season 10. So I want to encourage you before we head into season 11, go back and listen to any of the episodes |
| 0:55.8 | you missed. In this season of ministry, our national team at the Forgotten Initiative has |
| 1:01.6 | actually grown quite a bit, and we've seen many, many people reach out interested in becoming |
| 1:07.4 | an advocate with us to start a foster care ministry right in their local area. |
| 1:12.9 | And this is why we exist. |
| 1:16.0 | We want to give people the resources necessary to launch and lead thriving foster care ministries |
| 1:22.8 | in their own communities. |
| 1:25.0 | And it is so encouraging to see people come. I want to encourage you to consider |
| 1:31.1 | this step as well. You can find all the details on our website at tfiadvocate.org. Today we have such |
| 1:41.0 | a helpful conversation to share with you. We have the pleasure of having Ryan and |
| 1:46.1 | Kayla North on the show. Ryan actually grew up in South Africa and Kayla grew up in Texas and together |
| 1:53.5 | they have 10 years of experience as foster parents and co-founded an organization called One Big Happy Home. They are experts on childhood trauma. |
| 2:04.8 | They've developed training materials and programs for churches, schools, and parents. |
| 2:09.7 | And today they're sharing their wisdom with us. These guys are the real deal. It was so fun to talk |
| 2:16.9 | with them. |
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