Sticky Situations That Arise During the Holidays

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Join us as we talk about various holiday-related situations that can arise with foster, adoptive, and kinship families. Our guests will be Janice Goldwater, MSW, the CEO of Paths for Families; Courtney Tierra, a birth mom, educator, and storyteller; and Christa Hefel, MPH with the State of Iowa Four Oaks Foster and Adoptive Family Connections, and foster mom and mom of 10 children through birth and adoption.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Incorporating very different traditions around the holidays. Differences in gift-giving styles. 
• Managing expectations of gifts
• Incorporating birth family 
• How do we handle grandparents/older relatives who are very vocal about current affairs, race issues, politics, government systems (foster system) in earshot of kids?
• Child is of a different religion or no religion. If the holiday is religious, how to handle with adoption or fostering?
• What do you do when grandparents show a clear preference for biological grandchildren? 
• And we answer some of our listeners questions.

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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 & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.

Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:

• Weekly podcasts
• Weekly articles/blog posts
• Resource pages on all aspects of family building