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How to Talk to Your Child About Unsafe Birth Parents (Without Shame or Fear) - Weekend Wisdom
May 2, 2026
11m 45s
NFL Running Back Ricky Watters: How Adoption Shaped My Life
Apr 29, 2026
44m 29s
What Do Kids Need From Therapy? - Weekend Wisdom
Apr 25, 2026
18m 32s
Maintaining Secure Attachment While Disciplining Misbehavior
Apr 22, 2026
47m 59s
How Do I Handle All These Big Feelings & Big Behaviors? - Weekend Wisdom
Apr 18, 2026
13m 07s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/2/26 | How to Talk to Your Child About Unsafe Birth Parents (Without Shame or Fear) - Weekend Wisdom✨ | adoptioncommunication+4 | — | — | — | adoptionbirth parent+4 | — | 11m 45s | |
| 4/29/26 | NFL Running Back Ricky Watters: How Adoption Shaped My Life✨ | adoptionfoster care+4 | Ricky Watters | NFLA Gift Called Shane | — | Ricky Wattersadoption+4 | — | 44m 29s | |
| 4/25/26 | What Do Kids Need From Therapy? - Weekend Wisdom✨ | therapy for kidsfoster care+4 | — | DHSTherapists+1 | — | therapyfoster system+5 | — | 18m 32s | |
| 4/22/26 | Maintaining Secure Attachment While Disciplining Misbehavior✨ | attachmentdiscipline+3 | Dr. Casey Call | Karyn Purvis Institute of Child DevelopmentTCU+1 | — | attachmentdiscipline+4 | — | 47m 59s | |
| 4/18/26 | How Do I Handle All These Big Feelings & Big Behaviors? - Weekend Wisdom✨ | big feelingsbig behaviors+3 | — | — | — | tantrumsclingy whining+3 | — | 13m 07s | |
| 4/15/26 | Celebrating & Supporting Men in Foster & Kinship Care✨ | foster carekinship care+3 | Tony Craddock | Wake County | — | foster carekinship care+3 | — | 36m 11s | |
| 4/11/26 | What Is Blocked Care? What Can I Do About It? - Weekend Wisdom✨ | blocked careparenting+3 | — | Creating a Family | — | blocked careparenting+3 | — | 21m 20s | |
| 4/8/26 | Raising Kids Impacted by Opioid Exposure to Thrive✨ | opioid exposureparenting+3 | Lenette Serlo | Generation O | — | opioid exposureprenatal substance exposure+3 | — | 54m 46s | |
| 4/4/26 | Is My Teen Lazy, Depressed, or Stuck? - Weekend Wisdom✨ | teen behavioreducation+3 | — | — | — | teen lazinessdepression+3 | — | 19m 08s | |
| 4/1/26 | How Can We Equip Foster & Kinship Youth for Adulthood?✨ | foster carekinship care+3 | Vernell GoreNick Sgarlata | Youth VillagesBridge to Brighter | — | foster youthkinship youth+4 | — | 1h 00m 38s | |
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| 3/28/26 | How to Make and Use an Adoption Lifebook - Weekend Wisdom✨ | adoptionlifebook+3 | — | Creating a Family | — | adoptionlifebook+4 | — | 6m 47s | |
| 3/25/26 | Strategies for Maintaining a Healthy Marriage or Partnership (While Raising Adopted, Foster, or Relative Children)✨ | marriagepartnership+5 | Jeremy WaldenJara Walden | The Heart Work of Foster Care: A Hopeful and Honest Guide to Foster Parenting | — | healthy marriagefoster parenting+4 | — | 59m 05s | |
| 3/21/26 |  Help! No One Is Sleeping In Our House! - Weekend Wisdom | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Question: We have two children adopted through the foster care system as infants - an almost 10-year-old (AudHD) and a 4.5-year-old (neurotypical). They both come into our room every night in the middle of the night, and it really disturbs my sleep and my husband's sleep. It seems like we've tried everything to get them to stop. Recently, we told them we were going to start locking our door, but then they just come and knock and knock until one of us gets u... | 19m 39s | ||||||
| 3/18/26 | Parenting with Love, Joy, and Connection with Bryan Post | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Would you like to learn how to build a culture of joy, connection, and healing in your home? Join us for a conversation with Bryan Post, an adoptee and therapist specializing in child behavior, adoption trauma, and love-based parenting. He's the founder of Fear to Love LLC, Bondify.ai, and Leaf Wraparound, and the author of several books, including From Fear to Love. In this episode, we discuss: Bryan's journey as an adoptee and how that shaped his work with fam... | 1h 03m 55s | ||||||
| 3/14/26 | How Do I File Taxes Without My Child's Social Security Number? - Weekend Wisdom | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Question: My husband and I finalized our adoption in December 2025, and we’re still waiting for our son’s birth certificate in the mail. Then we’ll need to take it to file for an SSN and wait for that to arrive. How can we file taxes, including our newborn baby, without a Social Security Number for him? (We didn’t know we could file for a temporary number with the IRS until it was too late - after his finalization hearing). Resources: The 2025 Adoption Tax Credi... | 7m 07s | ||||||
| 3/11/26 | Problematic Sexual Behavior | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Do you worry about what is normal in your child’s sexual development? Join us to talk with Roy Van Tassell, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oklahoma and Director of Trauma and Evidence-based Interventions for Centene Health. He co-chairs the National Child Traumatic Stress Networks’ subcommittee on children with problem sexual behaviors. Warning: We will be using anatomically correct words and talking about sex, so if this offends you or triggers you, you m... | 59m 01s | ||||||
| 3/7/26 | I'm a Single Mom. How Do I Find Good Male Role Models for My Kids? - Weekend Wisdom | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Question: As a single mom, how do I find good role models for my kids? Resources: Finding Male Role Models for Kids of Single MomsCreating a Support Network as a Single Adoptive Foster or Kinship Parent1 Yes, 4 S's: How a Post-Adoption Support Group Changed My LifeSupport the show 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 ... | 14m 52s | ||||||
| 3/4/26 | Raising a Child with FASD to Thrive | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Are you raising a child with known prenatal exposure to alcohol? Does your child have a diagnosis for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder? Listen to this conversation with Barb Clark, Founder and CEO of FASD Mosaic. She offers coaching, training, and consulting on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), trauma, neurodivergence, and challenging behaviors, and is the author of Raising Kids and Teens with FASD: Advice and Strategies to Help Your Family to Thrive! In t... | 1h 20m 29s | ||||||
| 2/28/26 | Answering My Child's Questions When I Have No Information to Share - Weekend Wisdom | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! This is a second question from a listener named Tabitha who adopted a baby boy last year. Tho the adoption looked like it might be at least semi-open, it's effectively closed for now because the baby's birth mom is no longer communicating even with the agency. Question: All our training spoke to the benefits of open adoption. We also know (our baby) has two older siblings living with grandparents. There is also a toddler-aged sibling who was adopted. Like ... | 11m 51s | ||||||
| 2/25/26 | Understanding Attachment Between Parent and Child | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Is the idea of attachment parenting new to you and your family? Or could you use a refresher on what secure attachment is and why it matters? Listen to this conversation with Samantha Farris, LMSW, from the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development. She's helping us understand the basics of building secure attachment between parent and child to strengthen our families. In this episode, we talk about: How would you describe attachment in the simplest, most hope... | 1h 02m 35s | ||||||
| 2/21/26 | How Do I Find an Adoption Tax Credit Specialist? - Weekend Wisdom | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Question: When you are preparing your taxes and working out how to maximize this credit and get that $5,000 back, you might find that you want a tax professional to guide you through the filing process. How do you find a qualified, reputable tax specialist who can handle your claim? Resources: Finding a Tax Specialist to File Your Adoption Tax Credit ClaimThe 2025 Adoption Tax Credit (podcast)What Documents Do I Need to File for the Adoption Tax Credit - Weekend... | 7m 16s | ||||||
| 2/18/26 | What You Should Know About Disrupting Birth Order in Adoption & Foster Care | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Should you consider adopting or fostering a child who is older than a child already in your family? Are there things you can do to make it easier for all the children? We talk to Elizabeth Bohlken, Director of Education and Support at Children's Home Society and Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota, to talk about the preparation, joys, and challenges of disrupting birth order. In this episode: What is disrupting birth order?Why is this a topic that prospective ... | 59m 49s | ||||||
| 2/14/26 | How to Handle Open Adoption Even When the Birth Parent Chooses to Close It - Weekend Wisdom | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Question: How do we handle an adoption that has been closed from the first mom’s end? We don’t even have a photo of her despite our request. Our #1 Secret Tip for Navigating Open Adoption5 Tips for Navigating Sticky Situations with Birth ParentsWho Holds the Power in Adoption: Birth Parents or Adoptive Parents?Where is Mommy? Helping Kids Cope with Absent ParentsSupport the show Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.Creat... | 14m 27s | ||||||
| 2/11/26 | Talking with Miss Kentucky: Ariana Rodriguez | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Did you know that the current reigning Miss Kentucky is a foster alum? We spoke with Ariana Rodriguez about her life leading up to the pageant circuit, what motivates her, and how her foundation, The Lucky Ones, is changing foster care experiences for foster kids in Kentucky. In this episode, we talk about: You made history as the first Miss Kentucky to have been in foster care. Can you start from the beginning and give us the story that led to this title?What w... | 51m 34s | ||||||
| 2/7/26 | Talking to Your Child About the Hard Parts of Their Adoption Story - Weekend Wisdom | Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Question: I recently listened to a podcast featuring an adoptee, a birth mother, and an adoptive parent, which was great. The adoptee talked about when it hit her that she was adopted and feeling like her birth mother threw her away. My sons are adopted through the foster care system. One is technically still a foster child. My oldest was removed from his birth mother immediately after being born and placed with us. My second son spent about a year with his pare... | 14m 49s | ||||||
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