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Wednesday’s Child: Energetic teen hoping for supportive adoptive family

Wednesday’s Child: Energetic teen hoping for supportive adoptive family
BEAUTIFUL. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. YOU’RE WELCOME. FOR DECADES WLKY HAS HELPED LOCAL CHILDREN FIND FOREVER HOMES THROUGH THE WEDNESDAY’S CHILD PROGRAM. CHRISTINA MORA INTRODUCES US TO MICHAELA. SHE’S AN ENERGETIC 15 YEAR OLD GIRL LOOKING FOR A SUPPORTIVE, FOREVER FAMILY. JUST SUPPORT. SUPPORT. AND LIKE EITHER MY BAD DECISIONS OR LIKE MY GOOD DECISIONS JUST TO LIKE, SUPPORT AND TO UNDERSTAND AND ME AND WHERE I’M COMING FROM. LIKE MOST GIRLS HER AGE, 15 YEAR OLD MICHAELA IS HOPING FOR UNDERSTANDING PARENTS 194 WHO CAN GUIDE AND SUPPORT HER. THE HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN LIKES ART AND MUSIC. SHE’S GOOD AT DOING HAIR AND SHE ALREADY KNOWS SHE WANTS TO BE A NEONATOLOGIST WHEN SHE’S OLDER BECAUSE SHE’S DOING THIS LIKE REAL RESEARCH PAPER I LOOKED AT, I WAS LIKE LOOKING AT LIKE, JOBS TO DO, LIKE, LIKE TAKE CARE OF THE BABIES AND EVERYTHING. AND THAT JUST POPPED UP. I COULD SING JUST A LITTLE BIT, JUST A LITTLE BIT. NOT TOO MUCH. BUT YEAH. WHAT KIND OF MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR COUNTRY. WELL, I LISTEN TO COUNTRY, BUT IT DEPENDS ON WHAT SONG. YEAH, NOT ALL COUNTRY. MICHAELA SAYS SHE’S USED TO MOVING AROUND IN FOSTER CARE BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T KNOW ANY DIFFERENT, BUT SHE’S READY TO FIND A FOREVER FAMILY THAT WILL WELCOME HER FOR WHO SHE IS. I’M REALLY GOOD WITH, LIKE, YOUNGER CHILDREN. UM, I LIKE PETS. I HAVE A GOOD PERSONALITY. IT DEPENDS ON, LIKE, WHAT’S GOING ON AND EVERYTHING. I’M USUALLY JUST CHILL FOR WLKY AND WEDNESDAY’S CHILD, I’M CHRISTINA MORA. AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT KENTUCKY’S FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION PROGRAMS, HEAD OV
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Updated: 3:25 PM EST Feb 21, 2024
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Wednesday’s Child: Energetic teen hoping for supportive adoptive family
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Updated: 3:25 PM EST Feb 21, 2024
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Makia, 15, is an honest and energetic teen waiting to match with a supportive forever family. “Just support,” she said. “Either my bad decisions or good decisions, just support. And to understand me, where I’m coming from.”The high school freshman likes art and music, she’s good at doing hair, and she already knows she wants to be a neonatologist when she is older.“We were doing a research paper in class; I was looking at jobs that take care of babies and that popped up,” Makia explained.“I can sing, just a little, not too much, a little bit of everything, except country, depends what song,” she added.Makia said she’s used to moving around in foster care because she doesn’t know any different. But she’s ready to find a forever family that will welcome her for who she is.“I’m really good with younger children, I like pets, I have a good personality, depends what’s going on, I’m usually just chill.”If you’d like to learn more about Makia or Kentucky's adoption and foster care system, click here.

Makia, 15, is an honest and energetic teen waiting to match with a supportive forever family.

“Just support,” she said. “Either my bad decisions or good decisions, just support. And to understand me, where I’m coming from.”

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The high school freshman likes art and music, she’s good at doing hair, and she already knows she wants to be a neonatologist when she is older.

“We were doing a research paper in class; I was looking at jobs that take care of babies and that popped up,” Makia explained.

“I can sing, just a little, not too much, a little bit of everything, except country, depends what song,” she added.

Makia said she’s used to moving around in foster care because she doesn’t know any different. But she’s ready to find a forever family that will welcome her for who she is.

“I’m really good with younger children, I like pets, I have a good personality, depends what’s going on, I’m usually just chill.”

If you’d like to learn more about Makia or Kentucky's adoption and foster care system, click here.

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