Fan Favorite: Traditional Parenting vs. Trauma-Informed Parenting (w/ Kristin Berry)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Parenting is not for the faint of heart. It takes work every day to understand how to best love our kids, teach them, and correct them. Add to that learning how to parent a child who has gone through trauma, and you realize you need a completely different set of tools. Strategies that may have worked for our biological children now seem to have the opposite effect on our kids.
Kristin Berry is the co-founder of The Resilient Caregiver (formerly The Honestly Adoption Company), an author, podcaster, as well as a foster and adoptive parent. She is passionate about helping caregivers learn how to reframe their perspective on their child’s trauma history and respond to behaviors with compassion and connection. Kristin and her husband, Mike, have fostered for nine years and have had 23 children come through their doors.
In this episode, Kristin gives practical insight into why traditional parenting doesn’t work for kids who have experienced trauma, how you can parent in a way that promotes connection, and how to take away the power of negative behaviors.
Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes for this episode: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/kristin-berry-trauma-informed/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | sharing the stories of the foster care community this is the forgotten podcast when we are |
| 0:09.8 | parenting from a trauma-informed approach we're going to do some things that to the outside world |
| 0:15.1 | look a little bit like hmm did you really just get him a band-aid for a paper cut? |
| 0:21.7 | Yes, I did. |
| 0:23.3 | Because in this trauma-informed parenting, I'm having to go back and remember I'm going to build trust intentionally. |
| 0:32.6 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:34.5 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. |
| 0:40.4 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. |
| 0:45.5 | We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. |
| 0:56.6 | If you want to learn more about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, or |
| 1:02.4 | partner with us on mission with a gift of any amount, head over to the forgotten initiative.org. |
| 1:09.7 | We are in this together. Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:21.5 | Hey friends, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome to The Forgotten Podcast. We are taking a short break this |
| 1:27.4 | month from sharing new content because we want to re-release your favorite episodes of all time. |
| 1:33.3 | During the month of September, listen along and find answers to your common questions. |
| 1:38.3 | Questions like, when is the perfect time to start fostering? |
| 1:42.3 | What if my current parenting techniques aren't working? |
| 1:45.6 | What's it like to have your child removed from you? |
| 1:48.7 | What does it feel like to be a child in foster care? |
| 1:52.4 | And finally, how do you make the decision to say no as a foster parent? |
| 1:57.8 | Now, whether or not you've heard these episodes before, |
| 2:00.3 | we are excited for you |
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