Meet Chef Kibby — a biological, foster, and adoptive dad who stumbled upon a way to connect with kids.
In the beginning of 2020, you’d have thought he had a lot going for him: a growing catering business, a new event space, a podcast, and teaching college courses on the side. However, the picture looked quite different at home.
Chef Kibby was experiencing the challenges that come with attempting to care for children from outside their family of origin. His parenting was not connecting, behaviors weren’t improving, discipline wasn’t working. Unsure what to do, Kibby tried his best to escape into his work.
Then came the pandemic.
With the closure of his business and the loss of his personal escape, Chef Kibby had to find a way to address his parenting problems in the midst of an identity crisis.
Fortunately, it was in this time that he began to see a connection—the connection that being fed in relationship brings to a relationship. Since that time, it has been Kibby’s personal mission to use the everyday activity of feeding and being fed to develop a deeper sense of trust and felt safety in his relationships with his children and to teach other foster and adoptive parents how to do the same.