I'm a Single Mom. How Do I Find Good Male Role Models for My Kids? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
03/07/26
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Question: As a single mom, how do I find good role models for my kids?
Resources:
- Finding Male Role Models for Kids of Single Moms
- Creating a Support Network as a Single Adoptive Foster or Kinship Parent
- 1 Yes, 4 S's: How a Post-Adoption Support Group Changed My Life
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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Raising a Child with FASD to Thrive
March 4
•80m
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Are you raising a child with known prenatal exposure to alcohol? Does your child have a diagnosis for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder? Listen to this conversation with Barb Clark, Founder and CEO of FASD Mosaic. She offers coaching, training, and consulting on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), trauma, neurodivergence, and challenging behaviors, and is the author of Raising Kids and Teens with FASD: Advice and Strategies to Help Your Family to Thrive!
In this episode, we discuss:
- In your experience, what do caregivers most misunderstand about FASD at first?”
- How does prenatal alcohol exposure impact brain development?
- What is the difference between FAS and FASD?
- Do the timing, frequency, and amount of alcohol all matter in the outcomes experienced by the child? Are there other factors at play?
- Why is FASD still so often missed or misunderstood?
- Primary neurological impacts on a child who has FASD
- Secondary behaviors – which, when viewed through that brain-based lens, are adaptive responses that help them process and cope with their environment
- What are a few practical strategies parents and caregivers can implement to help them reframe how they support their child with FASD?
- Tantrums or raging as an example of challenging behaviors – how it may look differently across these ages and developmental levels
- What are a few of the typical strengths seen in individuals with FASD?
- Why do these strengths often emerge inconsistently?
- How our home environment and culture set a child with FASD up for success
- Can you offer practical suggestions for how parents or caregivers would implement a strengths-based approach to raising a child with FASD?
- Practical strategies that parents and caregivers can implement right away when raising their child with FASD
- How do you recommend a parent or caregiver handle the process of repair and reconnection with a child with FASD?
- What should parents and caregivers consider in planning for the future?
- Prioritizing self-care and reframing it as interdependence and community care.
Resources:
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Workshops for Parents
- Prenatal Substance Exposure resource page
- FASD Mosaic
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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Problematic Sexual Behavior
March 11
•59m
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Do you worry about what is normal in your child’s sexual development? Join us to talk with Roy Van Tassell, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oklahoma and Director of Trauma and Evidence-based Interventions for Centene Health. He co-chairs the National Child Traumatic Stress Networks’ subcommittee on children with problem sexual behaviors.
Warning: We will be using anatomically correct words and talking about sex, so if this offends you or triggers you, you may want to skip this podcast.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Typical Sexual Development / Play
- What is typical sexual development in children as they age?
- What type of sexual play is considered “normal?”
- How should parents manage a child’s natural sexual development?
- Problematic Sexual Behavior
- What are Problem Sexual Behaviors in Children?
- What causes kids and youth to act in socially unacceptable or destructive sexual ways? What factors influence the development of these behaviors?
- Child vulnerabilities
- Behavior problems
- Emotional difficulties
- Developmental delays
- Low impulse control
- Family vulnerabilities
- Poor supervision
- Single caregiver
- Modeling of coercion
- Harsh parenting practices
- Physical abuse
- Domestic violence
- Modeling of sexuality
- Sexual abuse
- Modeling/exposure
- Nudity or poor family boundaries
- How common are problematic sexual behaviors?
- Suggestions for professionals and parents and how to respond to behaviors.
- What should parents and caregivers do?
- Rules for younger kids
- How effective is therapy?
- How to find a therapist?
- What training have they had in this area?
- Child development expertise (including sexual development)
- Resources
- Taking Action booklets (two booklets) – for children with problematic sexual behaviors (age 12 and younger) and one for 13+
- Resources at the National Center on Sexual Behavior of Youth – really good resources for caregivers and parents.
- National Center for Exploited Children—for kids to understand safety—teaching them safety skills to protect their own body
- Amaze.org—videos for children
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- A.J.’s Story— A Book About Not OK Touches
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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