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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
08/02/25
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How do you know your child with prenatal substance exposure is ready to potty train? How do you start potty training a child with impacts from prenatal substance exposure, like developmental delays? This Weekend Wisdom offers practical strategies and encouragement to help you stay motivated and keep up the good work.
Resources:
- Raising a Child with Prenatal Substance Exposure
- How Do I Potty Train a Child with Prenatal Substance Exposure?
- Prenatal Exposure, Part 1: Parenting Babies through Elementary Ages
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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A Glimpse Into the History of Creating a Family
July 30, 2025
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Join us for a look at where CreatingaFamily.org - and this podcast - began and where we are heading from here. We talk today with Dawn Davenport, the founding Executive Director of the organization, as she prepares to retire from Creating a Family.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Tell us how and why you started Creating a Family. Why start a non-profit?
- Do any significant moments stand out from those early days of setting a path forward?
- Who were the hands-on folks behind the scenes in those early days?
- What were some of your hopes and dreams for this new venture when you started podcasting?
- What were some of your most memorable challenges?
- How has the world of podcasting changed in the 18 years since you launched this one?
- Were there one or two “big fish” you were excited to get?
- How have you seen the Creating a Family podcast impact the families we serve? The professionals?
- What are the most significant challenges you see facing our community of listeners / adoptive, foster, and kinship families in 2025?
- Do you have any lessons you’ll take from this season of your life – as a professional and/or as a parent?
- What are you most excited about for the future of CreatingaFamily.org?
- Do you have any retirement plans?
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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Smart But Scattered
August 6, 2025
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Does your child struggle to get or stay organized? Is homework a battle you dread every day? Prepare yourself to support your children for the Back to School season with this interview with Dr. Richard Guare. He's a neuropsychologist and board-certified behavior analyst focused on autism, learning, attention, and behavior disorders, and acquired brain injuries. He is the co-author of Smart But Scattered: The Revolutionary Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Define executive skills in a way that makes sense to a parent or caregiver who is unfamiliar with the term.
- Why are these executive skills essential for school success and independence?
- How does early childhood trauma, neglect, or prenatal substance exposure delay or disrupt a child’s executive skill development?
- What kinds of executive skill delays are common in children who’ve experienced foster care, adoption, or early adversity?
- How might a parent or caregiver begin to see a child’s delays in executive skill deficits in school?
- Define the strengths-based approach to teaching executive skills.
- How can we structure our homes and daily routines to best support what our kids will face during the school day?
- And practical strategies for supporting your student after school?
- What language can parents and caregivers use with our kids, and with teachers and support staff, to frame a child’s behavior in terms of execution skills vs. defiance or distraction?
- Why is it important for parents and caregivers to understand their own executive skills strengths and struggles?
- Top “takeaways” you want to encourage and support parents and caregivers to consider.
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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