Episode 37 - Taffee Adams
Mending Families is hosted by Melissa Pemberton and she brings you weekly content that is a mix of trauma aware interviews, parenting tips for those caring for kids from adversity, and stories from people just like you as they share their beautiful messy moments. Melissa hopes that when you listen each week, you will feel encouraged, inspired and take a little something away to help you and your family move from broken to mended.
Taffee is a foster/ adoptive mama to 4 beautiful girls. Her and her husband recently closed their foster license after almost 8 years. She now says that she is finally able to discover life with her family!
On today’s episode, Taffee shares how her family changed their mindset around foster parenting, and although they did adopt their four girls through the foster care system, Taffee talks about how they hold birth family relationships in a different light now. Taffee also shares the struggles of parenting kids from trauma, as well as the ways that they have learned to do new and better for their kids. She also gives us some good things to think about with how best to help our kids.
If you are interested in learning more about Taffee, you can find her on Instagram. She also has a fun podcast called Love and Tea with her friend, Lauren, and they talk all things foster care and adoption. Check it out!
Topics Taffee mentions:
*Embrace Washington has been a support to their family during the fostering process
*Repair has become a big thing in their home and is one of the most helpful tools they have
*Mending Families coaching has helped them learn new tools
*If you want to support foster or adoptive families, consider offering babysitting, providing meals, and helping in other ways that are practical.
*The Connected Child is important for foster and adoptive families to read
*Caregivers need to prioritize their own health and well-being to be the best for their kids
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