Yolanda suggests four ways in which adoption and marriage are similar and one really profound way they should not be similar. Yolanda also discusses “re-homing” and how to make the movement of a child to another family healthier for all involved, especially the child. Episode #80 is a follow up to this episode.

Adoptive Family Success Podcast provides support, tips, resources, practical steps and complete honesty and directness for those that are considering adoption, in the process of adopting or parenting by adoption. Each episode is designed to give you strategies and realistic steps to build your family by adoption and strengthen your family created by adoption. Yolanda believes those that are willing to do the work, with critical knowledge and support, can create the family of their dreams through adoption. Yolanda Comparan, the host, delivers one episode each week for prospective adoptive parents and one episode each week for those already parenting by adoption. International adoption, foster to adopt, infant adoption and kinship adoption are included in AFSP.

Yolanda reviews the basic of attachment as well as how to move forward in your research.

Yolanda shares what she has learned and applied from Brene Brown’s newest book, Rising Strong. She discusses how this applies to the really difficult times we often have in our families and the necessity of the messy middle.

Yolanda shares her story of her original HS provider and how she didn’t like Yolanda. She shares considerations when concerned about this possibility and suggested actions to take if in fact you discover your HS provide actually does not like you.

Yolanda talks about the two categories of difficulties many of our children experience once they walk in the house after a school day. She suggests ways to reduce these meltdowns for the benefit of our child and our families.

Yolanda talks about basics of Adoption Profiles, tips on what to do and not do while building your unique adoption profile and 8 things that expectant parents considering adoption will look for in an adoption profile.

Yolanda discusses some of the primary parenting changes she would do differently, mostly having to do with her, not her children. She comes to these very important realizations now that her children are young adults.

Yolanda makes strong recommendations for the transition period of having your new child home. She starts with the 10 days prior to your child’s arrival.

Yolanda discusses the not often admitted topic of being uncomfortable, intimidated or threatened by our child’s relationship with birth family members. She proposes three ways to think differently to reduce the negative feelings and see birth family as supports and advocates.