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Foster Family MattersWe're Back! Come Meet Our Newest Show Host.Welcome to Foster Family Matters
Thank you for joining us! Welcome to another episode of Foster Family Matters with your hosts Ryan North, Lori Fangue, LPC, Jailynn Smiley, and Shawn Wilson. Our show is a production of CK Family Services. We are a foster care, adoption, and behavioral health non-profit organization serving children and families in North and Central Texas.
What Are We Chatting About Today?
We are back baby! Come meet our newest show host, Jailynn Smiley, and hear about our plans for gearing episodes back up. We missed you during our tim...2021-05-1129 minFoster Family MattersNegotiation: Part 5 of the Four Tenets of Health RelationshipsWelcome to Foster Family Matters
Thank you for joining us! Welcome to another episode of Foster Family Matters with your hosts Shawn Wilson, Ryan North, and Lori Fangue, LPC. Our show is a production of CK Family Services and we are a foster care, adoption, and behavioral health non-profit organization serving children and families in North and Central Texas.
What Are We Chatting About Today?
Today’s episode is part 5 of our 5-part series, The Four Tenets of Health Relationships. Jude Cassidy did some research and formulated a theory that there are four te...2020-01-0245 minFoster Family MattersInterdependence: Part 4 of the Four Tenets of Health RelationshipsInterdependence: Part 4 of the Four Tenets of Healthy Relationships
Welcome to Foster Family Matters
Thank you for joining us! Welcome to another episode of Foster Family Matters with your hosts Shawn Wilson, Ryan North, and Lori Fangue, LPC. If you don’t already know, we are a foster care, adoption, and behavior health non-profit in North Texas.
What Are We Chatting About Today?
Today’s episode is part 4 of our 5-part series, The Four Tenets of Health Relationships. There are four tenants; giving nurture, receiving nurture, negotiating wants and needs and being...2019-12-1940 minFoster Family MattersNational Adoption Month: A Conversation with Lauren HudgeonsWelcome to Foster Family Matters
Thank you for joining us! Welcome to another episode of Foster Family Matters with your hosts Shawn Wilson, Ryan North, and Lori Fangue. If you don’t already know, we are a foster care, adoption, and behavior health non-profit in North Texas.
What Are We Chatting About Today?
Today we have a special guest with us. Her name is Lauren Hudgeons. She is a foster and adoptive parent as well as an attorney. Lauren works with kids in the state’s conservatorship. She will be answering various questions that many foster parents have...2019-11-051h 02Foster Family MattersReceiving Care: Part 3 of the Four Tenets of Health RelationshipsWelcome to Foster Family Matters
Thank you for joining us! Welcome to another episode of Foster Family Matters with your hosts Shawn Wilson, Ryan North, and Lori Fangue. If you don’t already know, we are a foster care, adoption, and behavior health non-profit in North Texas.
What Are We Chatting About Today?
Today’s episode is a continuation of one we started last time talking about relationships. Specifically, we will be looking at indicators of healthy relationships. What truly makes a healthy relationship? There are four tenants; giving nurture, receiving nurture, negotiating wants and needs and bein...2019-11-0527 minFoster Family MattersPart 2: Four Tenets of Healthy RelationshipsWelcome to Foster Family Matters
Thank you for joining us! Welcome to another episode of Foster Family Matters with your hosts Shawn Wilson, Ryan North, and Lori Fangue. If you don’t already know, we are a foster care, adoption, and behavior health non-profit in North Texas.
What Are We Chatting About Today?
Today’s episode is a continuation of one we started last time talking about relationships. Specifically, we will be looking at indicators of healthy relationships. What truly makes a healthy relationship? There are four tenants; giving nurture, receiving nurture, negotiating wants and needs and bein...2019-10-2429 minFoster Family MattersFour Tenets of Healthy RelationshipsWelcome to Foster Family Matters
Thank you for joining us! Welcome to another episode of Foster Family Matters with your hosts Shawn Wilson, Ryan North, and Lori Fangue. If you don’t already know, we are a foster care, adoption, and behavior health non-profit in North Texas. We believe that our show is perfect for parents of children and the people in their support networks (friends, family, co-workers, etc . . . ).
What Are We Chatting About Today?
Today we are starting a multi-part series on healthy relationships. To start things off, we’ll be chatting about what the different comp...2019-09-0530 minFoster Family MattersSelf-Regulation: Just Breathe . . .Karyn Purvis described self-regulation as “the body's ability to calm itself, by itself”. The discussion in this episode centers around three stages of regulation; outside-regulation, co-regulation and self-regulation. Each of these three stages stair-step upon one another such that until one has experienced competent outside-regulation, co and self-regulation are unattainable.
Frequently, our road block, as parents, is our predetermined expectations based on a child’s chronological age. We all have expectations for a child’s behavior based on their chronological age. But if the child did not have proper stair-steps from outside-regulation to co-regulation to self-regulation, they are not abl...2019-04-0527 min