Episode 4: The Dangers of a “Color Blind” Philosophy
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you’ll discover the importance of grieving infertility, the down side to “color blind” philosophy, and the value of your child’s story.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten Podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:12.2 | We as adoptive parents of kids of color have gotten to be aware of these things, |
| 0:16.2 | that our kids are going to experience the world in a different way, |
| 0:18.8 | and that we have to be able to have those conversations with them that say, I'm a safe person for you to talk to about these things. |
| 0:25.3 | Otherwise, they're just not going to. |
| 0:27.0 | If they don't think we'll understand, if they don't think we're seeing these things from their |
| 0:31.1 | perspective or at least trying, then it's going to be hard for them to feel safe enough |
| 0:34.5 | to talk to us about those things. |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast where we are bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm your host, Jamie Kabe, and today marks Season 1 episode number three. |
| 0:52.1 | You are going to love today's interview with Mary Lee Bradley. |
| 0:57.8 | Mary Lee is mom to six kids nine and under. Yes, you heard that right. Four of her kids were adopted, one internationally from Liberia, and three through foster |
| 1:03.1 | care. And two, as she puts it, they made themselves. Marilee blogs regularly at Amusingmarly.com |
| 1:10.1 | on topics like adoption, foster parenting, and |
| 1:12.6 | infertility. She also guest posts and contributes to many foster care and adoption-related |
| 1:17.8 | blogs and magazines, including our very own blog at the Forgotten Initiative. We covered a bunch |
| 1:23.2 | of topics on today's interview from helping our kids deal with racism to big family tips and all |
| 1:28.3 | things in between seriously my friends you are going to love this so without further ado |
| 1:34.6 | here is my interview with mary lee bradley all right mary lee bradley thank you so much for |
| 1:43.8 | joining us today looking forward to talking with Bradley, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 1:45.0 | Looking forward to talking with you. |
| 1:46.5 | Welcome. |
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