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The Empowered Parent Podcast with Kayla and Ryan North is a trust-based, trauma-informed, connected parenting resource. Hosted by Chris Turner.
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Monday Jul 09, 2018
Monday Jul 09, 2018
Listener Jamie asks the team about resources for family members and friends to help educate them on how they can best support their family as they navigate foster care and adoption journeys.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
- The Whole Brain Child
- TBRI Overview Video
- The Science of Neglect Video
- Brene Brown TED Talk on Vulnerability
- The Connected Child
- Back2Back Ministries
One Big Happy Home
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Whether we admit it or not, it's a thought adoptive and foster parents have at least once: how do I love my child when I don't like them? Chris, Kayla, and Ryan explore this in detail, starting with the need to continually remember behavior is an expression of a need. We need to do the detective work to help our kids!
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Les Carter - When Pleasing You Is Killing Me: A Workbook
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Sunday May 27, 2018
Sunday May 27, 2018
Listener Jeremy wants to know about prepping kids from hard places for summer camps, so Ryan, Kayla, and Chris discuss the best ways to manage this. They also discuss how those working at these camps might be able to help out in that environment.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Sky Ranch @ Horn Creek Adoptive & Foster Family Camp, August 5-11, 2018
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Tuesday May 15, 2018
It's time once again for another episode of everyone's favorite game show! Okay, alright, maybe not *everyone's* favorite game show, but it's certainly ours. Ryan and Kayla go head-to-head once again in Give Me an Example! They'll discuss repairing your mistakes, how to encourage and praise liberally, and responding to sensory processing needs. Who will win this round? It's a thrill a minute!
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
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Music: "Toony" by Liberty
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Executive Producer: Ryan North
Sunday May 06, 2018
Sunday May 06, 2018
Helping kids from hard places involves more folks than just parents. There are teachers and professionals, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and dear friends gathered around our families. If they're not gathered around, we need to bring them in to the fold, because it's important our kids have a TEAM helping them heal and reach their potential. Chris talks with Ryan and Kayla about the best way to do this.
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Friday Apr 27, 2018
Friday Apr 27, 2018
There are so many places where our unmet expectations get in the way of connection with our kids. Chris, Ryan, and Kayla are joined again by Allison Highton, and they talk about these various expectations, which begin even before our kids come home.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
One Big Happy Home
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Engineered and Produced by Dallas Stacy
Tuesday Apr 17, 2018
Tuesday Apr 17, 2018
Even if you haven't been to an adoption and foster care conference, such as Empowered to Connect or CAFO Summit, you may have attended a seminar or one-day class that had you coming out of it thinking, "Yes! I can do this! I'm going to change the way I parent my kids!" But the excitement wears off. Motivation falters. And what are we left with?
In light of the 2018 Empowered to Connect Conference happening April 13-15, and CAFO Summit coming up in May, Chris, Ryan, and Kayla tackle these issues. We all want to start with correcting behaviors, but we'll have long-term success with connection first. Connection is the foundation for everything else to click together. The team walks through how that might look for parents, offering practical examples to get started.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
One Big Happy Home: Web | Facebook | Twitter | Email | Window Decal
Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Produced by Dallas Stacy
Friday Apr 06, 2018
Friday Apr 06, 2018
Chris, Ryan, and Kayla are joined by Allison Highton. Allison, along with her husband Russ, is an Empowered to Connect parent trainer in New Jersey. Allison works with Miriam's Heart, a non-profit adoption ministry that radically supports families who take action on behalf of adoptive and foster children.
The group discusses various schooling options for our kids from hard places, from public to private to homeschooling.
Is your adopted or foster child in public school? You should know what an IEP is, and be your kid's biggest advocate. They also talk about being flexible on the home front after kids get home from school.
Back to School: Teachers are Important
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Produced by Dallas Stacy
Friday Mar 30, 2018
Friday Mar 30, 2018
The team discusses how playing with our kids is a great way to connect with them. Play is fun and disarming and makes us enjoy our kids as much as it makes them enjoy us. Play is the language of children but is sadly something most of us are no longer fluent in.
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Produced by Dallas Stacy
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Chris is joined once again by Kayla and Ryan North to talk about something that can be quite irritating to all parents: sassy talk. They discuss various ways to counteract it and get our kids to a place where they can talk respectfully not just to parents, but others as well.
Baby Owl Lost Her Whoo - Cindy Lee
The Frequency and Intensity of Behavior Dictates the Frequency and Intensity of Response - S3E2
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Music: "Home" by Moses Uvere
Produced by Dallas Stacy