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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
08/09/25
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We frequently hear from waiting parents that they are unsure when to prepare the nursery, what formula is best, or how often they should expect to feed their new baby. It's a huge life transition, and we thought today we could talk about some basic baby care tips to help you think about what's next for you and your family when you get the baby home.
Resources:
- I'm Adopting a Baby. When Do I Set Up the Nursery?
- Essential Baby Care for Infant Adoption
- Stocking Your Medicine Cabinet for Baby
- Understanding Post-Adoption Depression and How to Manage It
- First 6 Months with a Baby Exposed to Opiates
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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Helping Our Kids Cope with Bullies at School
August 13, 2025
•51m
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Most children will experience bullying at some point. What can parents do to help protect their children and to help their children cope if they are bullied? Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Brooke Randolph, LMHC, a child and family therapist and author of The Bully Book: A Workbook for Kids Coping with Bullies; and Debora Gish, LCSW, with Adoption Connection with 20 experience working with kids and families.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What is bullying?
- Distinction between bullying and typical childhood cliquish behavior or “mean girl” behavior or kidding around behavior of middle school boys.
- How to help kids not be over-sensitive to teasing or taunting. For example, a first grader having a hard time distinguishing between name-calling meant to bully and the kind of taunts that are part and parcel with schoolyard games like tag (e.g., he went to the teacher over “na na na na na na, you can’t get me”).
- What children are at greater risk for bullying?
- Why do children bully?
- Cyberbullying
- Bullying on the school bus.
- How effective are the classic things we tell kids about how to handle bullies?
- Effective tips for helping kids handle bullying.
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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