Latest Grandparent Podcast Episodes
How Common Are Failed Adoption Matches? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - February 11, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: Last week my husband and I flew across the country to meet our potential adoptive baby. We had been matched 5 weeks earlier and were full of happiness. We’ve always known the risks of having a fall through but based on the case, we ...
Dreams with JAETHELABEL
Rocking It Grand with Chrys and Shellie - February 08, 2024 06:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsChrys and Shellie interview Chrys’ granddaughter, Macy Nowlin, who started a clothing line in September 2023. Macy gives her reasons for starting the line as well the highs and lows of the entrepreneurial life. Join them and hear why Macy wasn’t interested in Chrys’ smocked dresses when she was ...
Adoption Microaggressions Parents Need to Know About
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - February 07, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend 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 Universit...
Can You Adopt Out of State? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - February 04, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: Is it possible to adopt a child from another state, provided that all parental rights were terminated on both mother and father’s sides? What extra complications or legalities do families adopting out of state face? Resources: A...
Facing Fear in 2024
Rocking It Grand with Chrys and Shellie - February 01, 2024 06:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsChrys and Shellie discuss the rising level of anxiety among young people today. Today’s mom and grandma need to be able to lead their families out of boldness, not fear. They discuss three steps that can move anyone from a life filled fear to a life of freedom.
How to Create a Compelling Adoptive Parent Profile
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 31, 2024 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How can you create an adoptive parent profile to help you stand out and show what makes you unique? To find out, join our guests Erin Quick, the Founder and CEO of PairTree and an adoptive mom, and Jess Nelson, the profile creation provider a...
How Are Foster Care Adoption Matches Made? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 28, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: How are pre-adoptive matches made in foster care? I’ve heard that families may even need to network with social workers to be noticed when possible matches come up, but I’m not sure how matches are made. Resources: Working as Pa...
Thoughts on how to Sort, Simplify, and Store
Rocking It Grand with Chrys and Shellie - January 25, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsChrys and Shellie share that the best approach to cleaning out a closet is also the best approach to cleaning up your spiritual life. Listen to the one thing Shellie has held on to in her closet and why Chrys has a hard time “letting go.” Then, listen as they bring God into the subject as they ...
An Adoption Memoir with Susan Ito
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 24, 2024 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Join us for a wonderful discussion with author and performer Susan Kiyo Ito about her new memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere. This is a book adoptive parents should read! In this episode, we cover: It felt like much of the tension between yo...
What Do You Wish You Had Known Before You Adopted? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 21, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: We are in the process of deciding whether to adopt, we have decided to give up on fertility treatment. As I listened to your podcast, I thought it would be good to ask you what you wish you had known before you had adopted? Resourc...
Interview with Patty LaRoche - A Little Faith Lift
Rocking It Grand with Chrys and Shellie - January 18, 2024 06:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsParty LaRoche is a former high school teacher and wife of a major league baseball player turned coach. She’s moved over 40 times with her family which opened her eyes to the fact that people everywhere struggle with rejection. Her book, Have a Little Faith Lift, points readers of all ages to und...
Adoption Tax Credit 2023
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 17, 2024 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Could you qualify for the Adoption Tax Credit? Find out by listening to this podcast with Becky Wilmoth, an Enrolled Agent and Adoption Tax Credit Specialist with Bill’s Tax Service, and Josh Kroll, the Adoption Subsidy Resource Center coordi...
What Questions to Ask Before Adopting From Foster Care - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 14, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: What questions should a pre-adoptive family ask about a possible match when adopting from foster care to determine whether the match would be a good fit for the family? Resources: Adopting from Foster Care Foster Care Resource...
Interview with Cherry Hudnall
Rocking It Grand with Chrys and Shellie - January 11, 2024 15:20 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsCherry Hudnall has been on a health journey for many years that started as a teen wanting to be a certain size. Later she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and life got more complicated. But, she’s found her way to good health and wants everyone to know it’s not a secret. Tune in to hear ...
How to Adopt in 2024
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 10, 2024 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you considering adopting this year? Don't miss this podcast on how to adopt in 2024. Our guests are Teresa Bernu, the Associate Director at the Adoption Center of Illinois, and Steve Valdez, the Chief Operating Officer at Hand in Hand Int...
How Does an Average Person Pay for Adoption?!? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 07, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Adoption: Cost of Adoption: How Much? How Long? Adoption Comparison Charts We surveyed our Facebook community, and we discuss how our members paid for their adoptions. How to Save for Adoption the Dave Ramsey Way This podcast is produced...
Fostering or Adopting as a Single Person
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 03, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have you thought about adopting or fostering as a single parent? Join us to listen to a panel of single adoptive parents share the joys and challenges of this option. In this episode, we cover: What were your biggest worries when you were t...
I Want to Foster, But My Husband Doesn't - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 31, 2023 07:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: I want to foster children, but my husband is against it. Our kids are 5 and 3 years old, and I really want to keep on having kids through fostering. I think I’m a good mom, and I think I’d do great at fostering. My husband thinks we...
Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 27, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend 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:...
Kids Do Well When They Can - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 24, 2023 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Parenting kids exposed to trauma is hard. Sometimes, it is very hard, but these families can thrive. In an interview with Creating a Family, Dr. Ross Greene, a Harvard Psychology professor, stressed that it was crucial for parents of children...
Rituals to Build Strong Families
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 20, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Join us to learn about family rituals—how to create and why you should. Our guest will be Elizabeth Barbour is the author of a new book “Sacred Celebrations: Designing Rituals to Navigate Life’s Milestone Transitions”. She’s also a reunited a...
Should I Stop Infertility Treatments and Try Another Option? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 17, 2023 07:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: How do you know when it is time to stop infertility treatments and move on to another option, including adoption? Resources: Parenting After Infertility Adoption Options Adoption Comparison Charts This podcast is produced by ww...
Interview with Tammy Whitehurst - how to not be a grinch at Christmas!
Rocking It Grand with Chrys and Shellie - December 14, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsTammy is super fun to talk to! She addresses the topic how to not be a grinch at Christmas. Christmas is so full of everything but, for moms, it can be full of things that no one loves, like refereeing the kids fighting or hosting an office party where no one gets along. Tammy points us all in t...
Connecting with Teens
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 13, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you dread the teen years? Or, if you're in the midst of parenting teens, do you struggle to find ways to connect? This week, we interview Dr. Melody Aguayo, a parenting coach specializing in working with at-risk children and their families...
Having Two Kids the Same Age When Adopting or Fostering - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 10, 2023 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Additional Resources: Virtual Twins Through Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective Adopting More Than One Child Adopting Out of Birth Order and Artificial Twinning This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-pro...
Holiday Drama: Are You Part of the Problem?
Rocking It Grand with Chrys and Shellie - December 07, 2023 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsRhonda Stoppe teaches us to point a finger at "us" to be sure we aren't part of the holiday drama. She says "an unexamined life is a wasted one". We must be able to look inward to solve outward issues. No one enjoys "holiday drama". Listen to Rhonda's advice to "nip it" before it happen...
Adopting From Foster Care
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 06, 2023 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have you ever considered adopting a child from foster care? Check out our interview with Erica Jourdan, the Founder of Adoption Options Consulting, where she provides support to families looking to adopt older children from foster care. She i...
What's The Difference Between River and Ocean Cruises?
MAGICAL Tomorrow's Podcast of Making MAGICAL Vacations Travel - December 05, 2023 22:00 - 28 minutesMonica of Making Magical Vacations Travel shares education and information regarding both types of cruising which makes up the 50th episode of the podcast. In this episode Monica does a "deep dive" pardon the pun about the means of water transportation. Spacious Rooms Minimal Guests max 150 or...
Living with a Picky Eater - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 03, 2023 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: My nephew came to live with us last March. He’s a great kid who deserves better than he had, but his pickiness with food is driving me crazy. He eats only white carbs. Even his mac and cheese has to have white cheese on it. Resourc...
Timing Of A Vacation Is Everything!
MAGICAL Tomorrow's Podcast of Making MAGICAL Vacations Travel - November 30, 2023 21:00 - 25 minutesHere Monica shares with us why Timing Of A Vacation is Everything, especially when you are looking to have a MAGICAL one. Monica will answer why there might not be flights, certain excursions and some favorites things you were looking forward to do but instead can't because maybe its a "spear o...