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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
09/17/23
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Q: I’m 67 years old. My niece has gotten involved bad with drugs. Her 5 and 3 year old were taken away from her and now the child welfare agency wants to know if I will take them. My niece has been doing drugs a long time and I honestly don’t know if she’s ever going to be able to get them back. I feel like I don’t have a choice.
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Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Helping Your Child Cope With Living in a Scary World
September 13, 2023
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Is your child scared of school shootings, tornadoes, climate change, and on and on? Do you want to learn how to help them not get stuck in these fears? Join us as we talk with Dr. Melissa Goldberg Mintz is a clinical psychologist based in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the book, "Has Your Child Been Traumatized: How to Know and What to Do to Promote Healing and Recovery."
In this episode, we cover:
- The world feels scary.
- Covid
- School shootings
- Police shootings
- Weather event
- Wildfires
- Our kids are struggling.
- Pediatric mental health hospitalizations have increased and intensified. More than eight in 10 public schools have seen stunted behavioral and social-emotional development in their students since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and 57 percent of teen girls and 29 percent of teen boys reported feeling “persistently sad or hopeless” over the past year.
- Many of the children being raised by the parents in our audience have experienced trauma before, but it feels like more kids are being shaken by current events.
- Is there a distinction between trauma with a “T” and little “t” trauma?
- How do we know if our child has been traumatized, regardless of whether it is an event outside of their personal world or an event that they are involved in?
- What are the symptoms of trauma and how to they vary by age of the child? (pre-school, school-aged, adolescents)
- Why do some kids seem to take all the troubling world events in stride while others struggle? And why do some kids seem to bounce back quickly from troubling events that happen to them directly? What makes a child resilient?
- The top question on most parents’ mind is, “Will my child be OK?”
- What can parents do to help when their child is struggling with coping with all the scary things in our world?
- It’s tempting to be lenient and not enforce rules when we see our child struggling. Is this the best approach?
- What life skills can parents teach that will help their child be more resilient and able to cope with scary world events?
- How do we know if our child is stuck and not moving past their fears with our help?
- What types of therapy are available and how can parents decide which one would be best for their child?
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
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
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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Raising an Anti-Racist Child
September 20, 2023
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Do you want to be part of the solution to the inequity that exists in our country? If so, one of the best things you can do is raise your child to be anti-racist. Join our conversation with Tiffany Jewell, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, This Book is Anti-Racist and The Anti-Racist Kid.
In this episode, we cover:
- At what age do kids notice race? And does this age differ in the US depending on the child's skin color?
- Why not teach our kids to be colorblind?
- How do the books we read, the movies we watch, the friends we make, the doctors we visit, and the conversations we have at home all shape our children’s views of race?
- What’s the difference between not being racist and being anti-racist?
- Is there a difference between how a White parent and a Black parent should approach raising an anti-racist child?
- Practical Tips for Parents
Resources:
- The Anti-Racist Kid by Tiffany Jewell
- 4 Tips to Raising an Anti-Racist Kid by Creating a Family
- Resources for finding great children’s books:
- Diverse Book Finder is a fantastic website that allows you to search for children’s books based on specific categories (e.g., biographies, oppression/resistance; crossing divides, etc.), race/culture (e.g., African American, brown-skinned but race unidentified, Latinx, Asian, Middle Eastern, Bi/Multiracial, etc.), country, religion, etc.
- The Brown Bookshelf highlights Black voices writing for young readers.
- The Conscious Kid is an education, research, and policy organization that promotes children’s books centered on underrepresented and oppressed groups. They have a book of the month subscription service and a terrific list of books by Black authors that center, reflect, and affirm Black children of all ages. You can also follow them on Instagram to learn about these books.
- Jane Addams Peace Association, Children's Book Awards
- EmbraceRace.org – Resource site formed by black and multi-racial parents with tools for parenting kids of color.
- One Talk at a Time – Providing support for Latinx American, Asian American, African American, and Black youth and their families to have conversations about race and ethnicity. In recognition that the issues may differ depending on the ethnicity, they have a separate section for Black, Asian, and Latinx parents.
- Creating a Family’s Transracial Adoption resource page – a variety of resources specific to families created through transracial adoption. We have an extensive collection of blog posts, news articles, expert Q & A’s, and radio shows/podcasts specific to multi-racial families formed through adoption.
- Between the World and Me – by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Written as a letter to his teenage son about being Black in the United States.
- The Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi.
- Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide
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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