AS PART OF ITS NEW UPCOMING POLICY. A DAD WHO IS FROM NEW ORLEANS IS SHARING HIS STORY ABOUT FULFILLING HIS PURPOSE. HE IS FOSTERING THREE SIBLINGS WITH THE GOAL TO ADOPT THEM SOON. TAKE A LISTEN. >> I’M FULLY INVESTED AT THIS POINT. I REASSURED THEM THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE MOVING AGAIN AND I REASSURED THEIR CASEWORKER THAT THIS IS IT. TRAVERS: JASON SMITH HAS BEEN FOSTERING THE BROTHERS SINCE APRIL. HE IS FROM NEW ORLEANS, BUT NOW LIVES IN LAS VEGAS NOW. HE CAME TO NEW ORLEANS THIS WEEKEND TO VISIT HIS FAMILY WITH THE THREE BOYS. HE IS A SINGLE DAD AND SAYS HE DECIDED TO DO THIS BECAUSE HE WANTED TO GIVE STABILITY TO KIDS WHO WERE JUST LOOKING FOR A FOREVER HOME. HE SAYS IT’S BEEN AN ADJUSTMENT GOING FROM NO KIDS TO A FATHER OF THREE ALMOST OVERNIGHT. >> WHEN I HAD TO GET RID OF THE KING BED IN MY RESTROOM AND BY TWO TWIN BEDS. THIS IS HAPPENING. I DONATED THE BED, STARTED DECORATING THE ROOM, PUTTING UP THE SPIDER-MAN WALL DECALS. IT WAS REAL. TRAVERS: ANOTHER PART OF THIS IS HE SAYS HE DID THIS IN PART TO HONOR HIS DAD, WHO RECENTLY PASSED AWAY, BECAUSE HE FEELS LIKE HE IS PASSING ALONG A LEGACY. HE SAYS HE WOULD NOT CHANGE AN
‘It’s been an adventure’: Single dad adopts 3 brothers
Updated: 12:22 AM CDT Jun 18, 2024
A forever family is making headlines across the country.Meet the Smith family: Taveon, 12; Ireon, who is soon to be 11; Tayvon, who just turned 10; and Pappa J.The foursome has felt like family from the beginning, but single father Jason Smith made it official two years ago, adopting the brothers he had been fostering.A life-altering decision for Smith and the boys after a life-changing moment.”I lost my dad Jan. 30, 2021,” Smith said. “I felt a little, I felt a way about not providing him with grandkids. There was a level of purposefulness that I didn’t have”.The New Orleans native went from a household of one to a party of four.”It’s been like an adventure like, been like, traveling a whole lot, it’s been like a very good journey where we went for like we went on the Disney Cruise Ship and we got to go to other countries,” Ireon said.This dad says he was mentally prepared for the demands of parenting, but some things he’s learning on the job.”The amount of, I guess, that planning around lunch and dinner and the amount of laundry that comes along with it,” he said.They’re in New Orleans for a few weeks to visit family, but the boys have been on the move and making headlines.From the baseball field, movie nights, church on Sundays, holidays, vacationsand Disney, a well-rounded, forever family is figuring it out along the way”There was no handbook. What I’ve done to guide myself through this experience has really been just reflecting on my own childhood and what felt good and what didn’t,” Smith said. “It’s OK to apologize in a moment where I made a poor decision, or I might have been too strict.”For these boys, the smiles say it all the definition of black boy joy, always knowing they will have a safe place to land.”I think I feel, like, happy and, like, a joy that we have someone who is willing to take any child. Yeah, nd they put their heart,” Taveon said.” I think, like, we are really awesome, and that’s what really matters,” Tayvon said.
A forever family is making headlines across the country.
Meet the Smith family: Taveon, 12; Ireon, who is soon to be 11; Tayvon, who just turned 10; and Pappa J.
The foursome has felt like family from the beginning, but single father Jason Smith made it official two years ago, adopting the brothers he had been fostering.
A life-altering decision for Smith and the boys after a life-changing moment.
“I lost my dad Jan. 30, 2021,” Smith said. “I felt a little, I felt a way about not providing him with grandkids. There was a level of purposefulness that I didn’t have”.
The New Orleans native went from a household of one to a party of four.
“It’s been like an adventure like, been like, traveling a whole lot, it’s been like a very good journey where we went for like we went on the Disney Cruise Ship and we got to go to other countries,” Ireon said.
This dad says he was mentally prepared for the demands of parenting, but some things he’s learning on the job.
“The amount of, I guess, that planning around lunch and dinner and the amount of laundry that comes along with it,” he said.
They’re in New Orleans for a few weeks to visit family, but the boys have been on the move and making headlines.
From the baseball field, movie nights, church on Sundays, holidays, vacations
and Disney, a well-rounded, forever family is figuring it out along the way
“There was no handbook. What I’ve done to guide myself through this experience has really been just reflecting on my own childhood and what felt good and what didn’t,” Smith said. “It’s OK to apologize in a moment where I made a poor decision, or I might have been too strict.”
For these boys, the smiles say it all the definition of black boy joy, always knowing they will have a safe place to land.
“I think I feel, like, happy and, like, a joy that we have someone who is willing to take any child. Yeah, nd they put their heart,” Taveon said.
” I think, like, we are really awesome, and that’s what really matters,” Tayvon said.
