Episode 136: Foster Care 101: Becoming a Middle Family
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Season 12 of The Forgotten Podcast! To kick it off, I have a helpful conversation with Emily Smithhart, an incredible woman who is a biological and foster mom, as well as a TFI Advocate in Sacramento County, CA! In addition to hearing her story and experiences fostering, we’re breaking down what it looks like to get involved with foster care! You’ll hear Emily share about adjusting expectations, how to get started, navigating placement calls, learning to root for reunification, and more. This is one you don’t want to miss!
(And if you’re currently considering foster care, this episode is an especially great place to start.)
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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 | There are so many hard parts, but I think if I had to say one hardest aspect of foster care, I think I would say that it's just the roller coaster effect. |
| 0:20.0 | There are just so many things that |
| 0:22.6 | pop up and shock you. It is most like getting on Space Mountain from Disneyland. |
| 0:32.0 | Happy New Year, my friends. I'm Jamie Cave and I want to welcome you to season 12 of the Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | We have so many exciting and meaningful conversations to share with you this season to help |
| 0:46.3 | all of us better support the foster care community. I cannot wait. Well, January is upon us, |
| 0:53.7 | and I know many of us like to think about goals and resolutions |
| 0:56.6 | during this time. I certainly do. I have dubbed this year for my family, Togetherness 2020. We are in the |
| 1:06.4 | season of life. We have actually less time together than we used to. I have lots of teenagers, |
| 1:13.6 | several of them work, so we're not all in one place at the same time as often as we used to be. |
| 1:21.4 | But I've decided that I'm still dubbing this togetherness 2022. I want to make the most |
| 1:27.1 | out of the time we actually do have |
| 1:29.2 | together. So here are a couple things. Family meals. Even when not everyone is there, I'm going to |
| 1:35.3 | try to make an intentional effort to get us all around the table more often than we were last year. |
| 1:41.5 | Bible time. In the evenings, we like to spend some time worshiping and, you know, |
| 1:47.0 | reading a short devotional together. Maybe not all of them will be there, but if we're |
| 1:51.1 | intentional about having Bible time every night, chances are we will have some time where everyone |
| 1:57.8 | is together. Also, monthly family nights. My kids often ask for family |
| 2:02.7 | nights, but they kind of expect me and want me to plan them. Well, I'm turning this around on them. |
| 2:07.1 | I want them to help plan, but I'm going to put some time on the calendar so that we do have time |
| 2:13.2 | when everybody is together. These are just a few of the things I'm thinking about this year. |
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