Do Teens in Foster Care Want to be Adopted? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
12/07/24
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Question: I'm interested in adopting an older teenager (16 or 17). An agency worker shared that many older teens don't want to be adopted, and just want to age out of foster care. Is this true, and if so, is adopting an older teen a reasonable goal?
Resources:
- Foster Care Adoption (Resource page)
- Adoptee & Former Foster Youth Voices
- Foster Care (Suggested Books)
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
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NFL Running Back Ricky Watters: How Adoption Shaped My Life
December 4, 2024
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Join us for this interview with former NFL Running Back and Super Bowl Champion Ricky Watters. He is an adoptee, an adoptive dad, and author of a new children's book on adoption, A Gift Called Shane.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How old were you when you learned you were adopted and how did you find out?
- When you discovered you were adopted, you mentioned in your NFL movie that it put a big chip on your shoulder. How has that chip served you well as an adoptive dad?
- How has it been a detriment?
- Why did you decide to adopt?
- Why did you decide to adopt internationally?
- Did your experience with finding out late that you were adopted affect the way you discussed adoption with your son?
- Do you see any signs of a similar “chip” in your son that you had when you found out you were adopted? How do you help him navigate it for his own success?
- How did you prepare your biological son for the adoption of his brother?
- How do you support your adopted son in his questions about identity, birth family, etc.?
- Are you in reunion with your biological family?
- How has your adoptive family handled your reunion with your birth family?
- How excited were you for fellow hometown boy Shady McCoy to get into the Eagles Hall of Fame?
- What was your experience with playing at Notre Dame?
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Why Won't My Child Sleep?! (And What Can I Do?)
December 11, 2024
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Do you struggle with getting your child to sleep? Join our conversation with Macall Gordon and Kim West, co-authors of the book, Why Won’t You Sleep?!: A Game-Changing Approach for Exhausted Parents of Nonstop, Super Alert, Big Feeling Kids.
In this episode, we cover:
This is not a newborn sleep training book. This is for those exhausted parents of kids from about age 1-6 who have tried it all and their child still won’t fall asleep easily or put themselves back to sleep when they awake in the night.
- Why are some kids just harder to get to sleep or harder to keep asleep?
- Why is sleep so hard for some kids?
- How does trauma impact a child’s ability to fall and stay asleep?
- What are the biggest sleep issues for these kids and what can we do about them?
- Overtiredness
- Problems with the lead-up to lights out (transitions and routine)
- Parent is a required part of the go-to-sleep and back-to-sleep pattern
- Past inconsistency (trying a method then stopping too soon or only partly trying)
- Parents worry that if they don’t immediately respond to their child’s cry, they will damage the attachment or that their child will feel unloved.
- Thoughts on co-sleeping or the family bed.
- Thoughts on books on tape or video?
- AD has been with us since she was 1, is now almost 7. She's always required us to be with her to fall asleep, occasionally waking in the night. Now for about 2 months she basically needs my husband or I to sleep in her room. If we aren't there, she wakes multiple times, crying for us.
- She says she's afraid of bad dreams and bad thoughts inside her head, so no lights, monster spray, soothing music, etc. have helped. There is no event we can recall that started this, the only thing that fits time-wise is an age-appropriate storybook we read about adoption, with a happy ending.
- We are happy to give her the connection she needs but we are also tired... Any ideas on how to help?
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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