Fostering Family: Recent Episodes
Alex & Amber
Cultivating family. It’s so important. Our journey into learning how to foster family came from being a foster family! Join our family of 12 as we share the nuggets of parenting wisdom we dig up along the way.
Alex and Amber answer another one of your great questions! Being organized is still a work in progress. Tune in as they talk about the struggles and some good solutions for staying organized as a big family.
Amber gives a quick update on the status of their 3 children who are still in care. Not the greatest news.🙁
We appreciate this suggested topic! Life after adoption does not magically erase the child’s biological family. Amber briefly discusses how they navigate through decision making when it comes to reconnecting with the biological families, post adoption.
Tune in as Amber briefly talks about the difficulties of giving consequences and sticking to them.
Amber and Alex open up about biological children and the hard road they’ve traveled getting to this point.
Listen in as Amber shares a little bit about her opinion on the pros and cons of respite care.
Tune as Amber briefly breaks down her daily routine and talks about one of her biggest, most important routine changes.
Alex and I reflect on one of our most difficult conversations about race as well as one of our favorite cultural differences.
In this episode, we will discuss how we’ve tackled conversations about race with our children.
We have a beautifully mixed up family. Take a listen as we discuss how important unity is during these difficult times.
Our thoughts on the importance of extended family and the roles that they play in raising our children.
In this episode we will discuss a very shortened version of a discussion that we had about breaking vs reshaping the will of a strong-willed child.
We’ll take our first episode as an opportunity to share how our family started. Foster care was not at all in our plans and yet, here we are!