24 episodes
Fostering With Love Dan Absalonson
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- Kids & Family
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3.9 • 8 Ratings
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A podcast chronicling the journey of one man's experience in becoming a foster parent.
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FWL Episode 23 - A Long Overdue Update
In this episode I finally give an update and share what it was like to go to an evaluation to see if my wife and I are fit parents to provide a forever home for our foster daughter. As I recorded this we'd had her in our home for a year. Download the .mp3 website: http://www.fosteringwithlove.blogspot.com
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FWL Episode 22 - A Heartbreak
In this episode I talk about how hard it is when a foster child who's been with you for a while has to leave. This time a 4 year old boy we were caring for had to leave because he was showing signs of sexual abuse. Listen to the episode to hear about this terrible yet all to common issue. Download the .mp3 website: http://www.fosteringwithlove.blogspot.com
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FWL Episode 21 - A Birthday Party
In this episode I talk about how wonderful it was to make our little foster guy feel special on his fourth birthday. We had the privilege to throw a foster child a birthday party again, and it was really cool. It was one of those days where my wife and I said to each other "These are the days that make it all seem worth it." What an honor it was to celebrate turning four with our foster child. He had a huge smile on his face that day Download the .mp3 (click the link to play the audio in your browser or right-click to download) website: http://www.fosteringwithlove.blogspot.com
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FWL Episode 20 - And Another
Listen to what happened to the two little guys we had for a few days and about our new placement of a four year old boy and his five year old sister, and their little brother who we didn't end up taking. Download the .mp3 (click the link to play the audio in your browser or right-click to download) website: http://www.fosteringwithlove.blogspot.com
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FWL Episode 19 - Another Emergent Placement
We've received news of kids coming into care before the police are going to take them. Hear how I feel about the sad situation of knowing kids are going to be taken from their home before they do and an update on what happened with our last placements. Download the .mp3 (click the link to play the audio in your browser or right-click to download) website: http://www.fosteringwithlove.blogspot.com
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FWL Episode 18 - Let's Do This Again
In this episode I talk about how we went about getting re-licensed to be foster parents after our break from doing it for a while and we had a middle of the night placement of two kids! Brother and sister. Sad stuff. We're back on this foster parenting journey again. Download the .mp3 (click the link to play the audio in your browser or right-click to download) website: http://www.fosteringwithlove.blogspot.com
Customer Reviews
Good podcast and not polished in any way
I have enjoyed listening to this podcast from a fellow Washington state resident. My wife and I are in the process of becoming foster parents and this podcast is very true and realistic regarding the difficulties and challenges that are faced within the foster care system.
I almost cried listening to this podcast...
I've worked in the Foster Care system for over 10 years and have now decided to become a foster parent. When I worked in the system I saw amazing foster parents but I saw too many who were there to adopt. I always worried about the "Fos-Adopt" homes because they had an agenda to see through the lens of "I want this child to stay with me" which is not what foster care is about. I listened to Episode 6 and started Episode 7 and had to stop because of typical statements I've heard from other fos-adopt parents. "The birth mom held the baby too much which caused all sort of neurological problems." Very judgmental statements about birth families are not helpful. (Although, that's a new one, I usually hear "They never held the baby enough and kept him in a bouncy chair/car seat all the time." And yet this podcaster couldn't understand why he was getting 'push back' from the birth mom. It's because even if you haven't acknowledged it, your agenda is to keep this baby and making it more difficult for the birth mom to complete her plan to reunify. Podcaster also said: "It's going to be so hard to let the baby go back home." You've had this child maybe 1-2 months. Can you imagine how the birth mother feels? She loved that child through pregnancy (9 months), birth (trauma and hormones galore) and held that child to her body until he was removed from her. And YOU'RE going to feel bad? I don't hear the empathy with the birth mother in these podcasts. It simply breaks my heart.
I will continue to listen because I want to know what happens to this family. I'm hoping I'll hear growth in the podcaster's mindset. Most likely, the child will not be reunified with the mother. Most children with addicted mothers don't get their young children returned because recovery takes years, which the child does not have. Child deserves permanency. But the child also deserves foster parents who value the birth family because he comes from them. I pray God puts love in this podcaster's heart for the entire family in need, not just the children.