Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. What are the microaggressions or stigmas in the world of adoption and how do they impact adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents? We talk with Dr. Amanda Baden, a Professor and the Doctoral Program Director at Montclair State University in the graduate counseling program and a licensed psychologist in private practice in Manhattan. She is an adult adoptee from Hong Kong and an adoptive parent of a daughter from China. In th...
Mar 30, 2022•43 min•Season 16Ep. 13
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How can we raise joyful resilient kids? We talk with Dr. Mona Delahooke, a clinical child psychologist and the author of Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids . In this episode, we cover: “Too often we are focused on the child’s behavior instead of the child. We are concerned about solving problems rather than cultivating the relationship.” A child’s behavior is a clue for us...
Mar 23, 2022•54 min•Season 16Ep. 12
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. The impact of prenatal exposures to alcohol and drugs is not something that kids outgrow and the transition into adolescence and adulthood can be particularly tricky. We talk about this transition with Kathy Hotelling, a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and is the co-founder of NCFASDInformed.org. She is also the mother to a 27 year old with FASD. In this episode, we cover: Tell u...
Mar 16, 2022•48 min•Season 16Ep. 11
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you suspect (or know) that your child was exposed to alcohol or drugs during pregnancy? We discuss tips for how to best work with these children with Dr. Robin Gurwitch, a professor at Duke University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Center for Child and Family Health. In this episode, we cover: How does prenatal exposure to alcohol or drugs affect children at different ages? Oftentimes adoptive, fost...
Mar 09, 2022•58 min•Season 16Ep. 10
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. What causes miscarriage and recurrent pregnancy loss? What is the best treatment and what are the controversies in the diagnosing and treating of miscarriage? In this episode, we talked with Dr. Lora Shahine, Reproductive Endocrinologist and Director of the Recurrent Pregnancy Program at Pacific NW Fertility and clinical faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle, and author of the book Not Broken: An Approachable Guide t...
Mar 02, 2022•55 min•Season 16Ep. 9
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have you or your child faced adoption related struggles? Do you think therapy might be helpful? We discuss how to find and choose an adoption competent therapist with Kelly Raudenbush, a child and family therapist and the director of Sparrow Counseling, providing specialized therapeutic services for foster and adopted children and their families. In this episode, we cover: What type of professional can provide therapy? What’s the...
Feb 23, 2022•45 min•Season 16Ep. 8
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How is adoption and fostering changing? We talk with April Dinwoodie , a transracial adoptee and thought leader in the field of adoption. She is host of two podcasts: Navigating Adoption and Born in June, Raised in April: What Adoption Can Teach the World! In this episode, we cover: What are some of the shifting realities that you see in adoption? Decline in international adoptions. What do you see happening with domestic infant ...
Feb 16, 2022•35 min•Season 16Ep. 7
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you thinking about adopting? Today we will talk about Adoption Options in 2022. This is the first of a two-part series on What is Happening in Adoptions. We will talk with Jackie Zerbe, Domestic Adoption Supervisor with Vista Del Mar Adoption Agency, Debora Phillips, founding CEO of Children’s Connections, Inc., and Viviane Martini, Family Coordinator with Hopscotch Adoptions, an international adoption agency. In this episode...
Feb 09, 2022•56 min•Season 16Ep. 6
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have you ever thought about using acupuncture or herbal medicine to improve your fertility or treat your infertility? We talk with Dr. Mike Berkley, a New York State licensed acupuncturist and board-certified acupuncturist and practitioner of herbal medicine by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He is also a member of The American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine. In this episode, ...
Feb 02, 2022•48 min•Season 16Ep. 5
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you serve kinship families and are wondering how to best to meet their needs? We talk about kinship navigator programs with Stephanie Perkowski is a Social Worker and Policy Analyst at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago; Julia Donovan, the Program Director of Ohio’s statewide Kinship and Adoption Navigator program, OhioKAN; and Tia-Maria Smith, the Program Director for Pennsylvania KinConnector which helps informal and f...
Jan 26, 2022•56 min•Season 16Ep. 4
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Join us as Dr. Bruce Perry answers your questions about how trauma impacts adoptive, foster, and kinship kids and families. Dr. Bruce Perry, is a child psychiatrist and neuroscientist, the principal of the Neurosequential Network, Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, and adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. He is the author the numerous books including co-author along with Oprah Winfrey...
Jan 19, 2022•53 min•Season 16Ep. 3
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you planning on claiming the Adoption Tax Credit this year? We talk with 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. In this episode, we cover: What is the Adoption Tax Credit for adoption being claimed on 2021 federal taxes? $14,440 per child It is a non-refunda...
Jan 12, 2022•59 min•Season 16Ep. 2
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. If you have unexplained infertility, what are your chances of ultimately having a baby—either through infertility treatment or natural conception? We talk with Dr. Denis Vaughan, a board-certified Reproductive Endocrinologist at Boston IVF and a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He was the principal investigator on the study "Long-term reproductive outcomes in patients with unexplained infertility". In this episode, ...
Jan 05, 2022•47 min•Season 16Ep. 1
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. The next step in understanding attachment and Trust-Based Relational Intervention is the new book, The Connected Parent , by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Lisa Qualls, with great assistance from Emmelie Pickett. On this episode, we interview Lisa and Emmelie about connected parenting. In this episode, we cover: Understanding the foundations of attachment. What do parents bring to the situation that influences how their children attach. Us...
Dec 29, 2021•1 hr•Season 15Ep. 53
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Does adoption positively or negatively affect children already in the family and what can parents do to lessen the negative impacts. We discuss this topic with Dr. Jana Hunsley, an experimental psychologist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and TBRI® Practitioner, specializing in understanding and meeting the needs of siblings is foster and adoptive families. In this episode, we cover: Much of the focus of adoption literat...
Dec 22, 2021•49 min•Season 15Ep. 52
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We talk about LGBTQ+ adoption with Dr. Abbie Goldberg, a Professor of Psychology and Director of Women’s & Gender Studies at Clark University. Her research and writing focus on diverse families, including LGBTQ parent and adoptive families, and she has authored and edited 8 books and over 130 peer-reviewed articles in this area. In this episode, we cover: Legality of LGBTQ+ parents adopting in the US . Statistics on LGBTQ+ ad...
Dec 15, 2021•43 min•Season 15Ep. 51
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. What's it like for a gay couple to create their family through egg donation and surrogacy. We talk with Armando Correa, People Magazine En Español's Editor In Chief and author of In Search of Emma: How We Created Our Family . In this episode, we cover: Did you always want to be a parent? Did you think that you would get to realize that dream? What options for becoming a parent did you consider? Why did you decide on surrogacy? Di...
Dec 08, 2021•38 min•Season 15Ep. 50
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have you ever thought of hosting a child for the summer or over the winter holidays? Check out this show where we interview Kathy Holiday who worked in adoption for 25 years and she supervised the child hosting program for Children’s House International. In this episode, we cover: What are child hosting programs? What is the purpose of a child hosting program? What are some of the ways different agencies design their hosting prog...
Dec 01, 2021•30 min•Season 15Ep. 49
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have you ever thought that it would be a lot more effective if the therapist could really see your child in action? That's the gist of home-based therapy. We talk with Stephanie Glickman, a licensed clinical social worker at the Clinical Director of the Family Centered Treatment Foundation and an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina Charlotte's School of Social Work. In this episode, we cover: What is home-based ...
Nov 24, 2021•45 min•Season 15Ep. 48
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do your child's reactions seem bigger than they should be to everyday events? Are your reactions sometimes a bit too big? What causes us to get triggered by our kids or to trigger them? We talk with Dr. Tripp Ake, a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of experience in the field of child trauma treatment. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center and...
Nov 17, 2021•51 min•Season 15Ep. 47
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Trauma can impact almost every single aspect of a child's development. But there are things parents can do to buffer that impact. We talk with Brett Loftis, CEO of Crossnore Communities for Children and Dr. Dawn O'Malley, Crossnore's Senior Director of Clinical Services. In this episode, we cover: How can trauma impact a child’s attachment and relationships? How does this impact them in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood? How ...
Nov 10, 2021•48 min•Season 15Ep. 46
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We talk with Corey Burke, an embryologist and Tissue Bank Director at Cryos International-USA and Dr. Mark Trolice, Reproductive Endocrinologist and Director of The IVF Center in Orlando and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, and author of The Fertility Doctor's Guide to Overcoming Infertility about decisions doctors and patient have to make concerning eggs or embryo...
Nov 03, 2021•48 min•Season 15Ep. 45
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are adoptive parents eligible for parental leave? What about foster parents or kinship parents? We talk with Dr. Amy Beacom and Sue Campbell, with the Center for Parental Leave Leadership and co-authors of The Parental Leave Playbook . In this episode, we cover: What are the laws and rules surrounding parental leave in the US? Who is eligible for parental leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? Parental leave on the ...
Oct 27, 2021•51 min•Season 15Ep. 44
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We talk about raising your grandkids with Christine Adamec, coauthor with Dr. Andrew Adesman, of The Grandfamily Guidebook . She and her husband have been raising their teenage grandson since his infancy. In this episode, we cover: Why are grandparent led families increasing? What are some common emotions that grandparents and other kin experience when they realize that they need to step in and raise their grandchildren or other ...
Oct 20, 2021•56 min•Season 15Ep. 43
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Talking with your adopted or foster child about the hard parts of their story can feel like a daunting task. Should you tell your child that her birth father is in jail or that her birth mother is addicted to drugs, or that she was conceived by rape? If so, how in the world do you share this news. We talk with Lesli Johnson, an EMDR therapist who specializes in adoption and foster care and an adult adoptee; and Susan Myers, a lic...
Oct 13, 2021•49 min•Season 15Ep. 42
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Primary Ovarian Insufficiency is a difficult and little understood diagnosis for infertility with ramifications for your general health as well as for your fertility. We talk with Dr. Alex Quaas, a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist with Reproductive Partners of San Diego and an Associate Professor at UCSD. In this episode, we cover: What is Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI)? Is there a difference between the labels/d...
Oct 06, 2021•49 min•Season 15Ep. 41
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. What are some tried and true ways to afford adoption? In this episode, we talk with Julie Gumm, author of You Can Adopt Without Debt: Creative Ways to Cover the Cost of Adoption. We cover ways to find “extra” money that you can put towards your adoption, ideas for increasing your savings, and reasons to be cautious about asking for donations to pay for an adoption. In this episode, we cover: How much do adoptions cost for familie...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 15Ep. 40
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We talk about the challenges of adopting, fostering, IVF, or third-party reproduction while being in the military. We talk with the co-founders of the Military Family Building Coalition, Katy Bell Hendrickson and Ellen Gustafson. In this episode, we cover: What are the challenges of being in the military and trying to adopt? What are the challenges of being in the military when seeking fertility treatment Military health insuranc...
Sep 22, 2021•54 min•Season 15Ep. 39
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Kinship caregivers (primarily grandparents raising their grandchildren) are often functioning as a shadow foster care system. We talk with Josh Gupta-Kagan, a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law and author of America’s Hidden Foster Care System in the Stanford Law Review, and Karissa Phelps, a Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow at Temple Legal Aid, where she provides legal representation and services...
Sep 15, 2021•58 min•Season 15Ep. 38
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. The trauma of racism impacts our children's physical and emotional health. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Roger Harrison, a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and a pediatric psychologist in the Division of Behavioral Health at Nemours/Alfred I DuPont Hospital for Children; Dr. Lonna Gordon, the Division Chief of Adolescent Medicine at Nemours Children’s H...
Sep 08, 2021•1 hr•Season 15Ep. 37
