Purposeful Parenting: Two Determined Mamas Talk Fostering, Adoption, and Special Needs

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Our Parenting series wraps up with an episode that our tribe has requested overwhelmingly. As parents, we are all doing the best we can to raise great kids. But what about the challenges we didn’t expect? What about the kids who have been left behind? This week, we talked to two mamas who gave us insight into a whole other realm of parenting that requires a special resilience. Jami Amerine and her husband Justin have six kids; four biological, and two adopted. Jami tells us about her beautiful but heart-wrenching experience with foster and adoption, why she refers to her youngest kids as the #vandals, and how God is helping her family write a redemption story through loss. Diane Dokko Kim and her husband Eddie have two sons, Jeremy and Justin. In 2004, two-year-old Jeremy was diagnosed with autism and ADD/ADHD. Diane tells us about her personal and family crises after her son’s diagnosis, how she and her husband have maintained a healthy marriage throughout, and how we can be better friends and neighbors to families with special needs. And lest you think this episode is heavier than most, stay till the end to hear the most hilarious #MomFail we’ve ever heard on the podcast (which happened only an hour before recording!).

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy. Welcome to the For The Love Podcast with your host,
0:07.0	Jen Hatmaker, my mom. She writes books and speaks to
0:10.9	cows, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people on this podcast every week.
0:17.0	Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.0	Hey everybody, it's Jen Hatmaker. Your happy hostess of The For The Love Podcast.
0:27.0	So you guys, we are at the end of our For The Love of Parenting series.
0:32.0	And it's been just such a treat for me to talk to, well, really all kinds of experts about all the stages and nuances of the never dull world of parenting.
0:42.0	So as you know, we wrap every series with a guest nominated by you are very amazing listening community.
0:49.0	And so as usual, you did not disappoint on this series.
0:52.0	I mean, you guys came out in full force with your nominations, people who are living their awesome lives and doing their thing in this parenting space and inspiring you
1:02.0	throughout a variety of like stories. And so it was pretty awesome.
1:06.0	We were introduced to such great people through your nominations. And so I really want to recommend to you listening right now that you jump over to my Facebook page after you listen to this show.
1:16.0	Amanda will have this linked up in the transcript.
1:19.0	And just read all of the wonderful stories that were shared with us about parents, you were nominating.
1:25.0	I mean, so many amazing people to get acquainted with and to put on your radar and to follow.
1:30.0	Honestly, the team and I were talking were like, I wish we could have a hundred, a hundred of the nominated parents to close out the series because there were so many great examples.
1:42.0	And so we were unable to just pick one. And so I do want you to know that we have two.
1:47.0	So as is the case often on the crowdsourced episode, I just can't choose. It's one episode, but we've got two guests on it.
1:55.0	And so I am delighted by our first guest on the show today. So you have told us over and over again that we need to get to know her.
2:03.0	And I can already tell she's like my just soul sister here. So this is Jamie Amarin.
2:10.0	And she's a writer. She's a wife. She's a mom. She lives in North Houston.
2:15.0	And she and her husband just didn't have six kids. Count them six. Maggie 23, John 20, Luke 18, Sophie 16, Sam 6 and Charlie 4.
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