Why Our Kids Drive Us Crazy Over the Holidays
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
11/13/24
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Do your kids drive you crazy over the holidays? Does their behavior escalate? Join our conversation to learn why and what you can do about it. We will talk with Erin Nasmyth is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with a Master’s in Social Work. She is the co-founder of Adoption Support Alliance, which provides services and support to adoptive families. She has worked in the public and private adoption and foster care system.
In this episode, we cover:
- Is it common to see behavioral changes for the worse during the holiday season?
- What are some of the behaviors you might see that allow our kids to drive us crazy?
- What are some of the stressors that we may not recognize that cause these behaviors?
- New things
- New people
- Change in routines
- Parental distraction
- Past history with holidays
- Too much of everything-sensory overload
- Practical ideas of how can we make the holidays smoother for our kids and for you
- Ideas on how to get our family onboard for making these changes to our holidays to make it easier for our kids?
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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Question: I see that you have information regarding prenatal substance exposure. Is there information regarding biological mothers that hate their pregnancy or their baby, but carry it to full term and put it up for adoption? Are there resources that would address the emotional impact on the baby?
Resources:
- Understanding the Birth Mom/Parent's Experience
- Talking with Kids About Adoption
- Raising a Child with Prenatal Substance Exposure
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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- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Question: My husband and I adopted our nephews four months ago. The two boys are sons of my niece; she gave her kids to the Family Department five years ago, and last year, we at last knew about the boys. They've been a year with us. I have a daughter, 21, and a son, 17, who were okay with the adoption, but now they say they feel this is not their home; they don’t feel at peace in their house and think It was not a good idea to adopt, because of the hard situations with the kids. How can we affirm to our biological children that we did the correct thing to give the kids a family and that there is a process we must go through as a family to adapt?
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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.
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- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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