AWAS 033: Hope Shares Her Script

On the 33rd episode of the Add Water and Stir podcast, the ladies observe National Adoption Awareness Month and the #FliptheScript movement by featuring ABM’s daughter, Hope, as this week’s guest.  

Hope talks about her time in foster care.  Having stayed in 7 homes in a four year period she’s a bit of a kid expert on foster care. She describes homes where she was treated well and felt safe, and homes where she just looked forward to being moved to the next home. She also talks about her life with ABM, and their struggles with placement.  Everything, everything, everything (!) was new and different and it was kind of hard and overwhelming.

Hope drops the science on what she thinks prospective foster and adoptive families should know about foster kids. She also provides some advice and encouragement to other foster kids who need loving, permanent homes. Hope and ABM also discuss the support that first/birth families need to keep their families together and keep kids out of foster care.

As she wraps up, Hope urges families going through tough times with their kids to remember to stick with it. She says despite the fact that kids can act out, don’t give up because they “could get a really cool kid! Don’t refund the kid!” Stick with the kid no matter what.

ABM is bursting with pride because, indeed, she got a *really* cool kid!

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