Adoptive Family Success Podcast

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.    

Are you prepared to adopt a child with special needs is a question you will need to answer in your home study process. Yolanda discusses what “special needs” can mean, and suggests ways in which to get to the answer that is best for you.    

It’s often surprising and confusing to parents why their child would oppose what they are offering. Yolanda shares a glimpse into what the child has lost in an adoption, even if it was incredibly unhealthy, it was a known entity. The child is now confused and the resulting disequilibrium can look like opposition.    

Some form of “How Would You Describe Your Parenting Style” is asked in every home study process. Yolanda shares what the intention of this question is and the importance of taking this question seriously for the benefit of your future family. 

So many of our children have not had the opportunity to play as we would expect a child of their age to have. Yolanda shares the incredible importance of the skill of play and why we need to focus more on this with our children.    

Yolanda strongly discusses what she has heard from too many prospective parents over the years, that if “it doesn’t work out we know we don’t have to finalize the adoption”. This consumerism mentality has resulted in too many parents not being fully committed to their children and has harmed too many children.    

Adoptive Family Success is a podcast created for those that are considering adoption, in the process of adopting or parenting by adoption. The host of AFS Podcast, Yolanda Comparan, provides support, information, resources and honesty in two episodes each week; Monday episodes are for those that have not yet adopted, Thursday episodes are for adoptive parents.

Adoptive Family Success is a podcast created for those that are considering adoption, in the process of adopting or parenting by adoption. The host of AFS Podcast, Yolanda Comparan, provides support, information, resources and honesty in two episodes each week; Monday episodes are for those that have not yet adopted, Thursday episodes are for adoptive parents.

Yolanda pulls from her decades long personal and professional expertise in open adoption to suggest ways in which to change thinking about openness to make it a win/win/win experience for all.    

For decades it was believed that a baby comes to us as a “bank slate”, ready for us to mold. There was also the belief that children adopted at a young age could be molded by their adoptive parents. We now know that Nature/genetics plays a strong role in the characteristics of every child and believing that a parent has 100% influence is a disappointment.    

Yolanda highlights parts of Deborah Gray’s newest book that can be of benefit to adoptive and foster families, no matter how long you’ve been a family. In this wonderful book, Deborah teaches realistic techniques for parents and children.    

Five questions to start out with when “interviewing” Adoption Agencies considering. Yolanda explains how these standard questions can be customized to fit your unique characteristics, wants and needs.