We just celebrated our first full year with Andrea and Linda, or as we like to call it, our Familiversary. We offer the ten biggest surprises over the last year.
Also, something for our listeners, a trivia contest! Win a prize.
Archive for the "adoption" category
We’ve started a new therapy program called Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). We’ve only been to two sessions with the girls but have found that this “proven” program really works. If you’d like to start using some of the skills we’re learning try using this acronym
Praise appropriate behavior
Reflect appropriate talk
Imitate appropriate play
Describe appropriate [...]
Can you foster kids while both parents work? Yes you can but it has some extra challenges. We discuss how we do it.
Also an update on our chance encounter discussed in our last episode and a shout out to some strangers we met through our show.
We bemoan the bad wrap foster parenting tends to get in the media. We also offer up a review of the movie “Losing Isaiah” starring Halle Berry and Jessica Lange.
Stay tuned for the end of this episode. We have a special treat for all of our listeners. You’ll want to hear it.
We discuss the very real problem of social workers who do not return calls. We offer advice and suggestions for getting them to call back with out suggesting a death in your home.
We had three days in court this week. For once, there was an outcome. Listen for a play-by-play.
“We receive enlightenment only in proportion as we give ourselves more and more completely to God by humble submission and love. We do not first see, then act; we act, then see. It is only by the free [...]
Our extreme measures to get Linda to stay in bed have garnered some odd reactions from her. A relational benchmark was finally reached for Tim and Andrea. Also, we’re approaching (hopefully) another court date and we discuss what it will mean for our family.
Also, shout outs to Catholic in a Small Town and Tupelo Catholic [...]
We discuss our impressions of mediation at this point in the process. We’re not too thrilled with how it has gone to this point.
Wendy shares a story that has meant a lot to her in the last couple of weeks. Check out this video for more inspiration!
We also appreciate our friends, Jon and [...]
What to expect at monitored visits. What are they? How often do they happen and why? We share why we prefer to be the monitors even though it exposes us to an awful lot of awkwardness with the birth family.
Also:
Wendy’s favorite new podcast: “Creating a Family: Talk about Infertility and Adoption” with [...]
We had some movement on the mediation process and it’s not looking so great. So with that in mind we review for ourselves, why we’re interested in post-adoption visits in the first place.
We finally met with our mediator! So we share all the details about what that process is like.
We tackle several of the listener comments that we have not had a chance to get into. A whole episode devoted to our listeners!
We mention:
Disney’s Enchanted
A Mother for Choco
Siberian Adoption Hotel
A book review of Talking with Young Children about Adoption by Mary Watkins and Susan Fisher.
We also briefly mention Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families With Special-Needs Kids : A Guide for Parents and Professionalsby Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky. Watch out there is a return of the “Listener Corner” theme song!
A good friend and regular listener questions something we said in the past about the appropriateness of adopting across racial lines. So we devote the full episode to that sensitive but pertinent topic.
We refer to:
The Multi-Ethnic Placement Act of 1994
Talking with Young Children about Adoption
Considering Interracial Adoption by Carrie Craft
We’re a couple of days late because sickness has struck our home. But we’re back with a review of Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors. The book is authored by Heather Forbes and Bryan Post. They have their own website at BeyondConsequences.com
No, we’re [...]
