Adoption Adventures

I asked our listeners to drop us some questions, so in today's episode, we cover a whole range of topics from trauma to changing the child's name. 

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A listener has asked me what I thought about splitting the adoption leave up and how this could work with our children. They have also asked about how to talk with other children in the family about adoption. Great topics! So, here are my thoughts. 

Here is the link to the book I mention: https://corambaaf.org.uk/books/adopting-brother-or-sister?gclid=CjwKCAiAv4n9BRA9EiwA30WNDzdM1xXJvxidHvc15J3IPdtjU4-ZthQ0f5SlrZnIl-HrB-sWsPaDHxoCV_kQAvD_BwE

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Family dynamics, how does ours look? We had a plan at the start of our journey, this changed quite a bit!! You can find out all about it here. 

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We had a listener reach out to us and ask us about introductions and when extended family members are allowed to get involved, this is something that comes up a lot when I do any work with friends and family.

So, today episode is all about that and helping to think of when would be right for you and when will be right for the child. 

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We had our first ever live session, here it is for you. Hope you enjoy. 

It is National Adoption Week, I was going to do a special episode talking about who can adopt, but following an amazing suggestion from a listener, we are going to offer a live episode!! 

We are going live on Thursday 15th at 18:00, we will be answering your questions, talking about who can adopt and what life is like in this world. We will be using our Podbean channel and on our instagram page too. Come along and join us. 

For today's episode, I am giving an update on how the little dude is getting on with his history teacher. We are also talking about national adoption week too. 

Find our Instagram page at adoption.advetures for our live episode on Thursday. 

Our little dude has been having a drama unfold with his history teacher over the last week, it has been a really interesting journey. I am sharing the whole experience from start to...a sort of finish. It has been interesting to see how little dude has gone head-to-head with his teacher and the reaction that the teacher has had...

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It is a tough subject, it is not a nice subject, but it is a vital subject! 

I have been asked a lot about adoption breakdowns and my take on them, I have had some experience with them and I am going to share these with you and hopefully, help you to see some things to help you to avoid anything like this. 

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We recorded a webinar a while back with Adoption UK about adopting an older child but thought that it would be good to have it as an episode, so I covered the topic all over again!! :-) 

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A listener has reached out to ask me to speak about Post Placement Depression. It is a really tough subject, but a crucial one to think about. So, I give my take on it and the advice that I have for any adopter that thinks they may be struggling. 

I also found this document which could help too: 

https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/adoption-and-fostering/Documents/Adoption%20UK%20Factsheet%2014%20-%20Post-adoption%20depression%20June%202013.pdf 

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