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...
May 24, 2023•54 min•Season 17Ep. 21
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you thinking about adopting from foster care or adopting a child you are already fostering? Are you wondering how to help the child transition to adoption? Our guests are Hope Middlebrook, a foster parent recruiter for Arrow Child and Family Services, and Jennifer O’Brien, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Regional Director for Arrow’s Foster Care Programs. In this episode, we cover: Two different scenarios: You are the f...
May 17, 2023•56 min•Season 17Ep. 20
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Is your child more intense and more challenging than other kids? Do you worry about the future for this child and your ability to help them learn to behave? You will love this interview with Tina Feigal, M.S., Ed., the Director of Family Engagement at Anu Family Services and founder of the Center for the Challenging Child, where she works with families throughout the US. She is the author of the book Present Moment Parenting: The...
May 10, 2023•58 min•Season 17Ep. 19
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you parenting a child on the autism spectrum. This interview will give you insight and hope. We talk with Dr. Lynn Koegel, a clinical professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and author of Hidden Brilliance: Unlocking the Intelligence of Autism . She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. In this episode, we cover: What are some of the variations in the way autism presents...
May 03, 2023•56 min•Season 17Ep. 18
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have you thought about adopting a child of a different race or ethnicity? Are you up for the job? How can you be the best family for this child? Join us when we talk with Meggin Nam Holtz, a Licensed Master Social Worker, and a Korean adoptee. She has a private counseling practice specializing in adoption. She created an award-winning documentary film, Found in Korea , about birth search, country of origin travel, identity, and a...
Apr 26, 2023•53 min•Season 17Ep. 17
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Does your child struggle with controlling their big emotions? Do they seem angry or frustrated most of the time? We've got some answers! Join us to listen to this interview with Dr. Stuart Shanker, a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Psychology at York University and author of several books, including Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Reframed: Self-Reg for a Just Soci...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 17Ep. 16
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you wonder how to talk to your child about adoption? What if they don't seem interested? How do you talk about some of the hard stuff? This episode explores talking with children about adoption at different ages with Mari Itzkowitz, with the Center for Adoption Support and Education (CASE). She is an adoption-competent therapist and leader of the CASE Training Team, providing training and education to professionals and parents...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 17Ep. 15
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 ...
Apr 05, 2023•56 min•Season 17Ep. 14
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How does parenting an adopted teen differ from parenting teens that come to us through birth? What are some of the unique challenges adopted teens or young adults face? Check out our interview with Katie Naftzger, an LCSW, Korean adoptee, and the author of “Parenting in the Eye of the Storm: The Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Navigating the Teen Years.” In this episode, we cover: Why is parenting an “adopted” teen any different from ...
Mar 29, 2023•58 min•Season 17Ep. 13
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Did your child experience trauma or loss before they came to you? Do you want to help them heal? Join our conversation 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 this episode, we cover: Wha...
Mar 22, 2023•53 min•Season 17Ep. 12
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have you wondered if you could be the right place for an LGBTQ+ youth or child to land? Join us to talk about how to be an affirming and supportive home for LGBTQ+ youth. Or guest will be Angela Weeks, the Director of the National SOGIE Center at the Institute for Innovation and Implementation. Under the Center, she directs the Center of Excellence for LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity and the National Quality Improvement Center on...
Mar 15, 2023•49 min•Season 17Ep. 11
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How do you handle a birth parent showing up to a meeting with the child stoned or drunk? What do you do when a birth parent often breaks promises to the child? Join us to talk about nine sticky situations that adoptive parents often find themselves in. Our guest is Lori Holden, the author of The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole . In this episode, we cover: What do we mean by openness and why is ...
Mar 08, 2023•50 min•Season 17Ep. 10
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. When should your child get a smartphone? What can you do if your child spends too much time playing video games? How can we protect our kids from the downsides of social media? Join us to talk about parenting and technology with Krista Boan, co-founder of the nonprofit Screen Sanity. In this episode, we cover: Digital Health : Screen Sanity’s 5 Rules of Thumb. Ride, practice, drive” approach for device and app introduction. How t...
Mar 01, 2023•56 min•Season 17Ep. 9
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Kari Dady joins us to talk about applying the guiding principles of Trust-Based Relational Intervention® to typical parenting situations. Kari Dady is a Regional Training & Consultation Specialist with the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development. She is also an adoptive mom who uses the TBRI® approach daily in her family. In this episode, we cover: What is parental attachment style, and how does it influence how we parent...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 17Ep. 8
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you have a child that is more—louder, more energetic, more argumentative, more everything? Intense children can be harder to raise, but their intensity is a gift as well as a parenting challenge. We talk with Howard Glasser, creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach to parenting. He is the author of Transforming the Difficult Child and Transforming the Intense Child Workbook . In this episode, we cover: What do you consider to be...
Feb 15, 2023•47 min•Season 17Ep. 7
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you worry that your decision to foster or adopt will hurt the kids you are already raising? Check out this podcast with Dr. Jana Hunsley, an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Dallas, trauma therapist, TBRI® Practitioner, and founder of Project 1025 . In this episode, we cover: Fostering What are some of the common impacts of fostering on children already in the family? Both potentially negative a...
Feb 08, 2023•58 min•Season 17Ep. 6
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. What happens when identical twins born in Vietnam are separated by adoption, with one adopted by a US family and one adopted by a Vietnamese family? Join us to talk with Erika Hayasaki, a journalist and author of Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity and the Meaning of Family . In this episode, we cover: The story. Twin studies. Adoption studies. The similarities of the twins in your story and in twin studies. The diff...
Feb 01, 2023•52 min•Season 17Ep. 5
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have mealtimes become a battleground in your house, is your child a picky eater, or do you have a child who eats too much? We provide lots of tips in our conversations with Dr. Katja Rowell, a family doctor and author of Love Me, Feed Me , 2nd edition, and Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating . She has a special interest in supporting foster and adoptive parents. In this episode, we cover: What are some of the typical foo...
Jan 25, 2023•53 min•Season 17Ep. 4
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you planning on claiming the Adoption Tax Credit when you file your taxes this year? If so, this is the podcast for you! We talk with two of the top experts in the US on the Adoption Tax Credit: 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 (NACAC). In this episode...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 17Ep. 3
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you thinking about adopting this year? You don't want to miss this discussion of how to adopt and current trends in private infant adoption, foster care adoption, and international adoption. Our guests are Chris Peszka, MSW, Regional and District Supervisor at Adoptions From The Heart Adoption Agency, and Robin Sizemore, Executive Director of Hopscotch Adoptions. In this episode, we cover: Domestic infant private adoption in ...
Jan 11, 2023•55 min•Season 17Ep. 2
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How do you know when enough is enough? What do you do when infertility treatment and adoption don't end up with you having a child. Join us to talk with Rebecca and Sallyann Majoya, co-authors of the memoir Uncertain Fruit , and Carole LieberWilkins, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist providing individual and couples counseling, as well as psychoeducational consultations, for those moving into alternative paths to parenthoo...
Jan 04, 2023•52 min•Season 17Ep. 1
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 c...
Dec 28, 2022•51 min•Season 16Ep. 52
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We talk with Isaac and Julie Etter, a mom and son, about what they have learned about transracial adoption and what they wish they had known at the beginning. Isaac is the founder of Identity, a startup focused on using technology to help adoptive and foster families thrive. Julie Etter is a mom of five and a humanities teacher. In this episode, we cover: Isaac, tell us your adoption story from your perspective. Why were you plac...
Dec 21, 2022•44 min•Season 16Ep. 51
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How do some kids survive a life of poverty, homelessness, abuse, and foster and eventually thrive? We talk with David Ambroz is a national poverty and child welfare expert and advocate and the author of the memoir, A Place Called Home . He was recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change. Currently serving as the Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon, Ambroz previously led Corporate Social Responsibili...
Dec 14, 2022•53 min•Season 16Ep. 50
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How much do you really know about your fertility, menstrual cycles, and conception? Join us to learn more with Dr. Joyce Harper, a Professor of Reproductive Science at the Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, and the head of the Reproductive Science and Society Group. She is the author of Your Fertile Years . In this episode, we cover: Understanding the menstrual cycle Understanding the basic of conception Pre...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 16Ep. 49
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you a foster or adoptive parent whose child is taking mood altering medications or medications to help them sleep? You will learn a lot about these medications and what you can do to make them as effective as possible. We talk with Dr. Adam Langenfeld, a Developmental Pediatrician at Children's Minnesota hospital. He also has a Ph.D. in chemistry. In this episode, we cover: What are psychotropic medications? What are the clas...
Nov 30, 2022•55 min•Season 16Ep. 48
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you wonder if your child was prenatally exposed to alcohol or drugs? There may be nothing in the files, but something feels not right? We talk about diagnosing and treating these kids with Dr. Larry Burd, a professor of pediatrics at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and the Director of the North Dakota Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Center. In this episode, we cover: Most of our audience is foster, adoptive, and kinsh...
Nov 23, 2022•50 min•Season 16Ep. 47
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you a transracial adoptive or foster parent? Have you wondered how you can help your child form a healthy racial identity. Does racial identity formation change depending on the race of the child? Today we talk about all this and more with Dr. Gina Miranda Samuels, a professor at the University of Chicago and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. She is a transracial adoptee and co-author of the ...
Nov 16, 2022•54 min•Season 16Ep. 46
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. What are the common health issues foster parents and those adopting from foster care should expect? We talk with Christy Street, Program Director of Fostering Health NC, which is a program of North Carolina Pediatric Society. In this episode, we cover: Term “health” broadly to encompass physical, emotional, mental, behavioral, developmental, educational, and oral health. Impact of trauma on kids physical and mental health. Those ...
Nov 09, 2022•53 min•Season 16Ep. 45
Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you thinking about using donor sperm, egg, or embryo or using a surrogate? We talk about the current trends in third party reproduction with Corey Burke, an embryologist and Tissue Bank Director at Cryos International Sperm & Egg Bank. In this episode, we cover: What do we mean by third-party reproduction? What are some of the current trends in sperm donation? What are some of the current trends in egg donation? What are ...
Nov 02, 2022•56 min•Season 16Ep. 44
