Ellen Jokikunnas and Jari Rask told Me Women about their first meeting with their adoption children.
Ellen Jokikunnas and Jari Rask’s Dreams in Italy were awarded at the Golden Venla Gala. Atte Kajova
MTV Dreams in Italy in the second season of the series followed the presenter Ellen Jokikuntas and the business developer Jari Raskin Renovation of the Italian home, but also an adoption child Ralphin The journey to their new home.
The couple’s dream of parenting came true after a long wait in November, when an 8-year-old Ralph boy traveled to Finland from the Philippines with their new parents.
The couple tells you now We women In an interview with the magazine, how the first meeting with your child was completely different than they could imagine. Before the meeting, parents talked to their child at regular intervals about video calls.
– I had imagined how we would explode for next second and that the next moments would be a fireworks display of emotions. But the encounter was really different, Rask says.
The parents noticed how the boy was excited, so it was clear that their own feelings were being pressed aside. They focused on being supporting the boy.
Emotions only erupted in the evening when Ralph was already in the land of dreams.
– All you had to do was take a look at the other, and both got a decent burst, like in cartoons, Jokikunnas told the magazine.
Ralph goes to a preparatory school and speaks Finnish smoothly. So far, the boy sleeps night between his parents. According to Jokikunnas, they are “refueling intimacy”, Ralph when they have not previously been able to sleep next to anyone.
In the adoption process, parents were prepared for many, including the fact that the child would not at first dare to express his or her feelings or how a child a child could also feel distant.
– It was confusing how fast and deep the connection immediately struck: we are the same gang. Already at the first meeting, I was feeling that I was ready to take my bullet on my chest at any time, Rask described.
When Dreams in Italy The program was rewarded at the Golden Venla gala, and the river municipality was sensitized to tears. He told Iltalehti how scary it was to open his own life in the program.
– We decided that we would never censor ourselves when we began to record our lives for our potential future child, which we did not know at that time who he was. We also did it up to TV, and it was really scary, Jokikunnas commented at the time.
The couple rejoiced in their program for a good reception. Above all, it was wonderful that Ralph also liked to look at their program.
– Yes, our own child wants to look at our episodes and Italy. He waits for when he will enter Italy, Jokikunnas said.