Posted on 06/02/2015 8:43:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Josiah is very driven for a 9-year-old.
When he grows up, he says he wants to a be race car driver.
For now, Josiah loves science and math at his elementary school.
In his spare time, Josiah loves indoor or outdoor go kart racing.
He’s a curious kid who spent the morning climbing to new heights on the rock wall at Andy Alligators.
When he’s not reaching for the sky, he’s building a new future in his foster home where he can create his own magical place.
“Yeah, and I like playing video games and playing with LEGOS,” Josiah said. “It’s like you’re making your own world!”
If he could create his own family, he would want a mother, father, brother and sister.
“And, of course, dogs, because I like dogs,” he said. “I don’t know what’s the name of it. You know those little dogs that are poufy, real poufy? Yeah, I like those ones,” Josiah said.
Josiah says he wants to find a loving and supportive family to be there for him and watch him grow.
“I don’t know. I just want to be adopted,” he said.
He, like thousands of other children in Oklahoma, is no stranger to constantly being moved around to unfamiliar homes.
“I’ve been to foster homes quite a lot of times,” he said.
Josiah has been under the care of DHS for six years, and he’d like a stable family to share all life has to offer – in the eyes of 9-year-old anyway.
“Go to arcades. Go to the movies. Go to eat and all sorts of stuff,” he said.
One thing is for sure, he’s found his new favorite hangout at Andy Alligators.
“I think I want to go back here again,” he said.
For more information on how you can adopt Josiah, call (405) 522-4176.
The process includes training and background checks. It doesn’t cost anything to adopt.
Yer 9 years old already.
get a job....
Every time I see little deaf girl and the two lezbos in the Western Fargo commercial: “We’re your two Mommies!” I want to throw something at the TV.
Wells Fargo. Who cares?
Oh, Lord, my heart weeps for this little guy.
I hope a proper family adopts this kid.
You want to weep?
Go to the State-level adoption sites and see the thousands of children who need parents.
It’ll break your heart!
Very surprised that a healthy white kid never got adopted.
This is tugging at heartstrings disguised as journalism.
There is a video of the child at the sight, but I didn’t see a photo.
a great way to bring a smile to an adopted kid’s face: www.onesimplewish.com found this site 2 years ago and got hooked.
I lost my parents one after the other, shortly before my tenth birthday.
I was lucky enough to have a lot of people looking out for me over the rest of my childhood, but I never got adopted. It was something I constantly dreamed of after the first few months.
They wouldn’t let my wife and I adopt because of concerns that somebody with my upbringing might not have the emotional background to adopt a child. There’s too many barriers in the way sometimes. There needs to be control, of course, but they seem to control for the wrong things.
I grew up in a house hold where half my siblings were adopted. I was cheated out of being the baby of the family by my sisters Susan and Trisha. and my brother roger. and I had one sister that was adopted who was a year older then me Shannon If it was not for the fact I never married I probably would of adopted children if my wife was willing. good families are needed for these children and anyone going into it needs to go into it with there eyes wide open. any of the kids that are not infants are the walking wounded emotionally. they have ran the gambit of sexual abuse and physical abuse. a lot of times the abuse happened after they were removed from there custodial parents by the very people that foster them. the kids have been exposed to drugs or prostitution and a host of other concepts that no child should be exposed to. The child will have a hard time becoming emotionally attached to you even though there is great desire on the child to make that attachment. if you all ready have kids especially one that are tween and younger you will have to watch out that the child you adopted is not victimizing the other children in the house.
I bring up all of this because anyone adopting needs to know it is a risk. of my four adopted siblings one was a complete failure he was unable to make motional attachments at all he was adopted at age nine by my parents and he had been put through the ringer seeing and doing everything a child should not have to see or do. one of my sisters years later quite contact with the family and to this day none of us knows why. she is a good person with husband and family and when I was a child she was very protective of me from bullies but there is no family bond. my other two siblings bonded with the family and I think of them constly
Considering journalists nowadays wouldn't know a fact if they tripped over it, there is no surprise this is all about feeelings.
That said, I hope the kid gets a good home. He sounds like a pretty resilient chap.
You want his health, medical, and any possible abuse information out there on the internet for everyone’s perusal? Where it can follow him forever?
I’m gonna guess and say that it isn’t there because he is a person, not a used vehicle, and an article isn’t a Carmax Guarantee. It isn’t anything that anyone who hasn’t done the hard work to adopt or foster needs to know.
I promise that if you get yourself certified to adopt through classes, background checks, interviews, and such, once you are approved, you will be told what an individual’s background is.
I was licensed to adopt initially (as opposed to fostering) and I called and emailed probably 50 case managers and not one got back to me. Not one.
They are pathetic.
I then tweaked my license and my husband and I got 2 fabulous kids that we have since adopted! Fostering is the way to go that eventually leads to adoption.
“Tweaked my license...”
Can you elaborate on that? What did you change that made a difference, positively?
We originally were only licensed to adopt which has different requirements than fostering, even though the license came from the same class. My husband was concerned that if we got licensed to foster they would take the kid away that he fell in love with.
Once we ran into the brick wall on adoption, we changed to foster (I can’t remember the exact details of what we did but it had to do with more paperwork :|). I convinced him that we have complete say on what kids come into our house and we’ll be prepared for whatever God has in store for their future; whether staying with us or moving on.
So, no sooner do we change the license that the phone starts ringing. Initially it was for babies, which most people want, but we wanted school age. So, we waited patiently. Then we got a 10 yo who was awesome. Eleven months later he moved to PR with his granddad. We were good with it. Two months later we got a girl and boy, siblings, and adopted them 2 years ago.
I told you my whole story! LOL Feel free to ask questions. Not sure what state you’re in but in FLA its a really good process all in all. They remove any hurdle you could use that would keep you from fostering or adopting as far as monetary issues, counseling, medical. The state of FLA pays for 4 years at any university in the state.
Did that once in Mobile, AL and you are correct... It will break your heart.
Go see how long it takes you to adopt one...if you can. And if you can keep the child.
That’s why people go overseas to get them.
That’s just it, I’ve adopted 2 and it is well worth the time, effort, and money involved.
All you get back is love.
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