Picky Eating and Other Food Issues
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
01/25/23
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Have mealtimes become a battleground in your house, is your child a picky eater, or do you have a child who eats too much? We provide lots of tips in our conversations with Dr. Katja Rowell, a family doctor and author of Love Me, Feed Me, 2nd edition, and Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating. She has a special interest in supporting foster and adoptive parents.
In this episode, we cover:
- What are some of the typical food issues for adopted or foster kids, especially those who have experienced trauma?
- How does trauma impact feeding?
- Responsive eating leaves space to recognize what the body needs.
- What do you mean by felt safety and focusing on connection?
- What is a responsive and flexible framework for feeding kids with brain-based differences?
- How to best deal with kids who are significantly underweight.
- How to best handle extreme pickiness.
- How to handle children who are eating too much, emotional eaters, or who are overweight.
- Why do kids from foster care or institutional settings often become larger than optimal for their health?
- Practical tips for establishing healthy eating patterns in adopted or foster kids
- modified family style serving
- supporting nutrition
- sensory support at mealtimes
- food “exposure” therapy
Additional Resources:
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:
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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:
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2022 Adoption Tax Credit
January 18, 2023
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Are you planning on claiming the Adoption Tax Credit when you file your taxes this year? If so, this is the podcast for you! We talk with two of the top experts in the US on the Adoption Tax Credit: Becky Wilmoth, an Enrolled Agent and Adoption Tax Credit Specialist with Bill’s Tax Service, and Josh Kroll, the Adoption Subsidy Resource Center coordinator at the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC).
In this episode, we cover:
- What is the Adoption Tax Credit for adoption being claimed on 2022 federal taxes?
- How to advocate for refundability?
- What is a “credit” and how does it differ from a deduction or some other form of tax savings?
- If you get a tax refund every year, how would you use the Adoption Tax Credit?
- If you don’t have any federal tax liability, should you still apply the credit to your federal income taxes?
- What types of adoptions are included or excluded? Stepparent adoption? Embryo adoption? Same-sex partner second-parent adoption? Unmarried heterosexual second-parent adoption? Surrogacy?
- Can you get credit for each adoption you complete even if completed in the same year? What about adopting siblings at the same time?
- What is a Qualified Adoption Expense for purposes of the Adoption Tax Credit 2022?
- When can you claim the Adoption Tax Credit?
- Domestic private adoption
- International Adoption
- Re-adoption in the US for international adoption
- Foster Care Adoption
- How does the Adoption Tax Credit work with kinship adoptions? What if the child never was involved with foster care?
- Special Needs Adoption: How does the Adoption Tax Credit differ for adoptions from foster care? What does the IRS accept as proof of “special needs”?
- $0 subsidy agreement
- Special needs child for international adoption
- Can you reclaim your expenses for an attempted adoption that did not result in a placement? How?
- What income level (Modified Adjusted Gross Income) is excluded from claiming the Adoption Tax Credit in 2022?
- How long can the credit be carried over?
- Are you able to amend the previous year's tax return to claim the adoption tax credit? Is the adoption tax credit something you can amend, and if so, how do you amend and how many years back?
- Will the Adoption Tax Credit offset self-employment tax?
- How does the Secure Act impact claiming the Adoption Tax Credit for 2022 taxes?
- What should you do if the child’s Social Security Number is not available when you file?
- Should you use an Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number (ATIN #) if you don’t have the child’s social security number?
- How does the Adoption Tax Credit work in conjunction with employee adoption benefits? For special needs adoption?
- Qualified Birth or Adoption Distribution from Qualified Retirement Plan without penalty. Under Secure Act.
- If you adopt, can you still get the Child Tax Credit?
- What do you need in order to get the Child Tax Credit for your adopted child?
- Do you need to send to the IRS any documentation for the Adoption Tax Credit when you file your taxes? What type of documentation should you keep in your records?
- How to find a tax specialist knowledgeable on the Adoption Tax Credit? https://adoptiontaxcredit.org
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
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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Identical Twins Separated at Birth
February 1, 2023
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What happens when identical twins born in Vietnam are separated by adoption, with one adopted by a US family and one adopted by a Vietnamese family? Join us to talk with Erika Hayasaki, a journalist and author of Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity and the Meaning of Family.
In this episode, we cover:
- The story.
- Twin studies.
- Adoption studies.
- The similarities of the twins in your story and in twin studies.
- The differences between the twins in your story and in twin studies.
- Reuniting
- How did the twins' reunion affect them, their family in Vietnam, and their adopted family in the US?
- Complications that the disparate degrees of wealth caused.
- Adoptive parents’ role in reunion.
Twin studies referenced:
- Polderman, T., Benyamin, B., de Leeuw, C. et al. Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies. Nat Genet 47, 702–709 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3285
- Website based on the research cited above: MaTCH. This website provides a resource for the heritability of all human traits that have been investigated with the classical twin design. The traits have been classified into 28 broad trait domains, as well as according to the standard classification schemes of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) or the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10). Currently, the database includes information from 2748 papers, published between 1958 and 2012, reporting on 17804 traits on a total of 14,558,903 twin pairs. https://match.ctglab.nl/#/home
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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- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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