Episode 66: Traditional Parenting Vs. Trauma-Informed Parenting: Pursuing Connection with Your Child
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Parenting is not for the faint of heart. Understanding how to best love, teach, and correct our children is something we are continually learning. Add to that, learning to parent kids who have experienced trauma, and things that may have worked for our biological children now seem to have the opposite effect on our kids. In today’s episode, Kristin Berry brings us practical insight and encouragement to help us parent our kids in a way that keep us connected.
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey. |
| 0:04.6 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | When we are parenting from a trauma-informed approach, we're going to do some things that to the outside world look a little bit like, hmm, did you really just get him a band-aid for a paper cut? |
| 0:24.3 | Yes, I did. |
| 0:25.9 | Because in this trauma-informed parenting, I'm having to go back and remember I'm going to build trust intentionally. |
| 0:38.8 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome back to The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:42.5 | It is so good to be with you today. |
| 0:44.6 | Now, whether you're brand new to this world called foster care, |
| 0:47.8 | serving deep in the trenches, |
| 0:49.2 | maybe you're a foster parent, a social worker or ministry leader, |
| 0:52.1 | or seeking direction on how to best advocate for |
| 0:55.0 | those who feel forgotten in your community, the Forgotten podcast is here for you. Today, we are going |
| 1:01.1 | to talk about traditional parenting versus trauma-informed parenting with my guest and friend, |
| 1:06.8 | Kristen Barry. Many of you know Kristen and her husband Mike. They have been guests on here before, |
| 1:12.5 | and they are authors of the popular blog Confessions of an Adoptive Parent. And they're also hosts of |
| 1:18.3 | the podcast, Honestly, Adoption. They have been married for 19 years and parents for 16 years. |
| 1:25.2 | All eight of their children join their family through adoption, and they have |
| 1:28.5 | fostered for nine years and have had over 23 children come through their doors. And now they |
| 1:34.4 | are enjoying their newest adventure called Grand Parenting. Oh my goodness. Kristen speaks honestly |
| 1:40.2 | and from her experience, so this is an episode that will leave you wanting to get to know her better. |
| 1:45.1 | And I encourage you to do that. Head over to their website at Confessions of an Adoptiveparent.com. |
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