Latest Parentingadoptedchildren Podcast Episodes
Episode 29: Parents Need to Handle Their Own Stuff!!!
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - September 30, 2020 04:13 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin hosts adoption coaches and adoptive parents, Joann DiStefano and Susan David, for a discussion on the importance of handling the disappointments of infertility or the burden of financing an adoption early rather than later so that pain and resentment does not get in the way of building a s...
Episode 28: Adoption-attunement Parenting Includes Following the Rules
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - September 03, 2020 08:41 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin hosts, adoption coaches and adoptive parents, Joann DiStefano and Susan David, for a discussion about a less explored but very important aspect of Adoption-attunement (AQ), follows ethical practices.
Episode 27: Adoption-attuned Parenting and Racial Equity
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - July 29, 2020 13:39 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin adoption coaches and parents, Joann DiStefano and Susan David as they host the fourth and final episode of a series dedicated to adoption-attuned parenting and the quest for racial equity. They'll be joined once again by colleagues, Gayle Swift and Sally Ankerfelt, for an interview with ...
Episode 26: Adoption-attuned Parenting
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - July 21, 2020 15:14 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAdoption coaches and parents, Joann DiStefano and Susan David host the third in a four part series of special editions of Essentials for Adoption-attuned Parenting. They'll be joined once again by colleagues, Gayle Swift and Sally Ankerfelt, for an interview with special guest Lola Adebara, Fo...
Episode 26: Adoption-attuned Parenting
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - July 21, 2020 15:14 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAdoption coaches and parents, Joann DiStefano and Susan David host the third in a four part series of special editions of Essentials for Adoption-attuned Parenting. They'll be joined once again by colleagues, Gayle Swift and Sally Ankerfelt, for an interview with special guest Lola Adebara, Fo...
Episode 25: Adoption-attuned Parenting and the Call for Racial Justice
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - June 30, 2020 23:45 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAdoption coaches and parents, Joann DiStefano and Susan David host the second in a four part series of special editions of Essentials for Adoption-attuned Parenting. Joined by their colleagues, Gayle Swift and Sally Ankerfelt, they discuss recent events in our country calling for racial justic...
Episode 24: Adoption-attuned Parenting and Racial Justice
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - June 24, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAdoption coaches and parents, Joann DiStefano and Susan David host a special edition of Essentials for Adoption-attuned Parenting. Joined by their colleagues, Gayle Swift and Sally Ankerfelt, they discuss recent events in our country calling for racial justice and how that relates to adopted ...
Episode 23: Allowing Our Children to Speak Truth Aloud
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - June 19, 2020 14:58 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin your hosts, adoptive parents and adoption coaches, Joann DiStefano and Susan David as they discuss listening to understand your adoptive children rather than to refute, solve, or soothe their concerns or problems. Allowing our children to speak truth aloud is part of Intentional Parenting ...
Episode 22: Calling All Adoptive Parents to Adjust Their Binoculars!
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - May 18, 2020 19:15 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin your hosts, adoptive parents and adoption coaches, Joann DiStefano and Susan David for a discussion on how Intentional Parenting and Adoption-attunement (AQ) practices can help adoptive parents and their children stay or get regulated, build resiliency, and triumph over the challenge of the...
Episode 21: Adoption-attunement in the Covid 19 Pandemic
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - April 15, 2020 15:51 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis month's The Essentials of Adoption-attunement Parenting touches base with adoptive parents who need to be aware that trauma and attachment issues will persist despite the whole world having stopped. It continues to be important to tune in with yourself first before you can offer help to you...
Episode 20: Rejection Casts a Long Shadow
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - March 02, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAbandonment is part of adoption. Rejection is the belief that emerges from it. Adoptive families must learn to accept their children for who they are and at the same time, recognize that their presence in their family comes at high personal cost to them. While we have hopes and dreams for them, ...
Episode 19: Adoption Myths Still Prevading Our Culture
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - February 10, 2020 23:35 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGIFT adoption coaches, Joann DiStefano and Susan David, discuss the myths that have pervaded adoption for decades. These myths are detrimental to the development of our adopted children. This short discussion emphasizes why we, as adoptive parents, need to find the courage to challenge these myt...
Episode 18: How Inducement Shapes Intentionality in Adoption-attunement Parenting
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - January 10, 2020 23:07 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGIFT adoption coaches, Joann DiStefano and Susan David, discuss how the concepts of inducement, intentionality, and commitment work with Adoption-attuned parenting.
Episode 17: How Intentional Are YOU?
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - December 04, 2019 18:26 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGIFT adoption coaches, Joann DiStefano and Susan David, discuss why intentional parenting is a must for adoptive parents and share some examples of what you can do to better attune with your adopted child.
Episode 16: Love Means Letting Go of the Child of Your Fantasies
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - November 08, 2019 22:45 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGIFT adoption coaches, Joann DiStefano and Susan David, discuss the importance of adoptive parent's loving the child they have and not the child of their fantasies. Adoptive families can sharpen their adoption-attunement quotient or AQ by listening to this episode.
Episode 15: What May Create Anxiety in Adoptive Parents?
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - August 02, 2018 20:32 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGIFT coaches, Joann DiStefano and Susan David, discuss possible causes of anxiety in adoptive parents and how this might create anxiety in their children. Learn ways to understand and support them using Adoption-attuned* practices. Some of the information is based on Privilege of Parenting by Br...
Episode 14: What May Create Anxiety in Our Adopted Children?
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - June 19, 2018 14:44 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGIFT coaches, Joann DiStefano and Susan David, discuss possible causes of anxiety in adopted children and ways to understand and support them using Adoption-attuned* practices. Some of the information is based on Privilege of Parenting by Bruce Dolin, Psy. D.
Episode 13: Tools for Updating Perceptions in Your Adopted Family
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - May 24, 2018 18:18 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGIFT Coaches, Joann DiStefano and Susan David, discuss why it's important to understand how perceptions of reality differ among members in adoptive families. Of course, it is important to be Adoption-attuned* and also to update how you perceive your children; appreciate their various aspects and...
Episode 12: What Adoptive Parents Can Learn from the Challenges of 2017
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - January 16, 2018 15:45 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHosts and coaches, Joann and Susan, discuss the challenges that adoptive families may have faced in the past year. Using Adoption-attuned Parenting (AAQ) and "Well Formed Outcomes", you can shape and improve your families' relationships in 2018. Practicing intentionality and mindfulness allows f...
Episode 11: A Special Interview with Adoption/Foster Care Professionals
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - December 19, 2017 16:18 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAdoption Coach, Sally Ankerfelt, hosts this enlightening interview with two young adult professionals who have experienced the foster/adoption care system firsthand and are now working to improve it for others with their organization, Partnerships for Permanence (P4P). P4P is an affiliate of GIF...
Episode 10: What To Consider After You Adopt - Ages 7 to 12
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - August 08, 2017 14:49 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Episode 10, we focus on relationship building during the middle years, ages 7 through 12. Through the lens of Adoption-attuned* parenting and the coaching presupposition, "every behavior has a meaning", we consider some of the challenges that may arise during these childhood years. Learn how...
Episode 9: What to Consider After You Adopt – Ages 0 to 7 Years
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - June 01, 2017 14:44 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Episode 9, we will continue our discussion relating to differences that adoptive families face before, during, and after the adoption process. Today, our focus is centered on the adoption experience after the process in years 0 to 7, using Adoption-attuned* principles and the coaching presup...
Episode 8: What to Consider During Your Adoption Process
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - May 01, 2017 22:44 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Episode 8, we will continue our discussion relating to differences that adoptive families face before, during and after the adoption process. Today, our focus is centered on the adoption experience during the process using Adoption-attuned* principles and the coaching presupposition, "the map...
Episode 7.What to Consider Before Your Decision to Embark On The Adoption Journey
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - March 30, 2017 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEpisode 7 begins a 4 part series discussing some of the differences that set an adoptive family apart from a biological family before, during, and after adoption. In this Episode, using Adoption-attunement* principles, GIFT adoption coaches, Joann DiStefano and Susan David look at what you might...
Episode 6: Learn How Storytelling Makes Sense of the Losses and Gains Experienced in Adoption
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - March 13, 2017 16:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Episode 6, learn firsthand the technique of storytelling, how it can help your child understand their adoption experience, and assist you, the parent, in gaining a new perspective and possibly a more connected relationship with your child.
Episode 5: Hear First-hand How Adoption Brings Significant Gains and Tremendous Losses
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - January 24, 2017 15:59 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Episode 5, you will hear an adoptive parent's experience of her children's journey as they search and reunite. Today, discover how adoption's gains and losses played out in in this family's reality.
Episode 4: Adoption Brings Tremendous Gains and Significant Losses for the Adoptee
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - November 30, 2016 11:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Episode 4, we continue exploring “the maps of reality" and how your experiences define your “map.” Each person in the Adoption Triad has experienced different gains and losses. Today we will focus on the adopted child and explore a few factors – prenatal and beyond - that could influence an ...
Episode 3- Adoption Brings Tremendous Gains and Significant Losses for the BirthParents
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - November 16, 2016 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Episode #3 we continue exploring “the map” of reality and how some “maps of reality” can never be fully perceived or understood by us, the adoptive parent. Each person in the Adoption Triad has experienced different gains and losses. Today, we will focus on the birthparents and explore how di...
Episode 2: Adoption Brings Tremendous Gains and Significant Losses For Adoptive Parents
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - November 16, 2016 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Episode two, learn about “the maps” of reality and how your experiences define your “map.” Each person in the Adoption Triad has experienced different gains and losses. Today, we will focus on the adoptive parent and explore the various reasons for adopting. Become aware of the changing nat...
Episode 1: Introducing Coaching and Adoption-attuned Parenting*
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - November 16, 2016 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Episode 1, meet your hosts and coaches. Learn more about coaching and how it can help you meet the challenges that may arise within your adopted family. Begin building a strong foundation using intentional Adoption-attuned Parenting*.
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