Podcasts · Connected Families Podcast

A Parenting Framework for Adoption and Fostering? Yes!

27 Nov 2023 · 40 min · Episode 157

Listen in as Lynn Beckett, Chad Hayenga, and Stacy unpack a grace-filled lens for navigating parenting and discipline in adoptive and foster care families. These creative and compassionate ideas can benefit any parent!

When families grow through adoption or foster care, they often experience unique and sometimes challenging circumstances. Today’s conversation highlights ways the Connected Families Framework can guide these families toward deeper connection, secure attachment, and attuned correction. Our guest, Lynn Beckett, is a TBRI® Certified, licensed social worker and serves as the Program Manager and a parent coach at Lifeline Children’s Services. She joins Chad Hayenga (Connected Families Director of Education & Equipping) and Stacy Bellward (podcast host and adoptive mom) to share practical ideas and insights for each level of the Connected Families Framework.

In this podcast you’ll discover:

How your attachment style can influence how you view and respond to your child’s behavior, and how your child’s attachment style affects their behavior as well

How the Connected Families Framework can deepen your child’s sense of felt safety

Ways to strengthen your attachment with a child who is avoidant or suspicious

How you can help heal your child’s negative identity messages from the past through the ABCs of affirmation

Ways you may need to adjust discipline and correction as you respond to a child who has experienced trauma

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Mentioned in this podcast:

The Connected Families Framework

Episode 101: Does Attachment Style Matter?

Childhood Wounds: What They Are and How to Free Your Parenting of Them

Connected Families Certified Parent Coaches

Guest Bio:

Lynn Beckett has worked in the area of foster care and adoption since her graduation fromthe University of Georgia in 1981. She joined Lifeline staff in 1989. Her role atLifeline has included preparing and equipping families for foster care and adoptionand supporting them in the post-placement phase of their journey. She became aTBRI® Practitioner in 2016 and a Certified Parent Coach through ConnectedFamilies in 2021. While providing post-placement services to adoptive and fosterfamilies, she developed the parent coaching program for Lifeline. Lynn iscommitted to the care of vulnerable children and to helping caregivers bring thesechildren to a place of healing. Lynn is married to Brian, and they live in Birmingham,Alabama. They have two daughters, two sons-in-law, and three grandchildren. Lynnhas found that being a grandparent is the best “do over” ever.

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