Yolanda gives tips on how to critically look at websites that represent adoption services from organizations, agencies and individual practitioners.

Yolanda reviews statistics for children that have histories of addiction in their birth family. In addition, suggestions on how to help your child understand the risks are given.

Yolanda discusses that she has changed her talks to parent groups. She used to discuss “if” a child needs therapeutic services and now discusses “when” a child needs services and the benefits to the entire family to access this help.

Yolanda discusses what she has recently learned from the incredible book, Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson and how it can be applied to help parents help our children with complex lives.

Yolanda discusses what she believes to be a very serious decision to adopt a child of color and questions that are a must to answer before you go forward.

Yolanda shares more “techniques” she used when parenting her now adult children. This second part includes more controversial methods that she has received criticism for.

Yolanda shares why the decision to adopt a child of color is to be taken very seriously. She speaks to this topic as a person of color with children of color.

Yolanda shares parenting “techniques” that she used when her children were younger that benefited her family.

Yolanda explains what adoption fairs and picnics are, her feelings about them and the real benefits she’s seen from them.

Building on the last episode for adoptive parents, Yolanda suggests valuable steps to making it through this really tough time of transition and how parents can takes things less personally while helping their child heal.