Calendar Conversations: A Guide for Adoptive Parents
April Dinwoodie
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The L.U.C.K.Y. Framework: Supporting Adopted Children Through Complexity
March is filled with symbols of luck—four-leaf clovers, leprechauns, and pots of gold. But for many adopted people, the idea of being "lucky" can feel far more complicated. In this episode of…
February: Love That Protects — The Gap Between Loving and Protecting Transracially Adopted Children
February holds Valentine's Day and Black History Month — tenderness and truth, celebration and resistance. In this powerful February episode of Calendar Conversations with June in April, April…
January: Mapping What Matters & The Universal Tool for Belonging
Belonging is a fundamental human need, yet for adopted persons, it is often a persistent challenge. While not everyone can fully grasp the lived experience of navigating adoption, separation, and…
Lessons in Making and Breaking Traditions
In this episode of Calendar Conversations – A Guide for Adoptive Parents, host April Dinwoodie explores how adoptive families can rethink holiday traditions with intention and openness. Rather than…
Setting the Holiday Table in Complex Times: Nourishing Family Narratives
In this November episode of Calendar Conversations: A Guide for Adoptive Parents, host April Dinwoodie invites listeners to reflect on what it means to set the holiday table with intention in complex…
October: Behind the Mask — The Truth About Belonging, Identity, and the Narratives We Navigate
This October, host April Dinwoodie explores the masks we wear — the ones we put on to belong, to stay safe, or to make others comfortable — and what happens when we start to take them off. Through…
Belonging in the Messy Middle
In this September episode of Calendar Conversations: A Guide for Adoptive Parents, April Dinwoodie reflects on what's surfacing for children a few weeks into the school year—feelings of belonging,…
Back to School in a Changing Climate: Always Learning, Always Growing
In this August episode of Calendar Conversations: A Guide for Adoptive Parents, April Dinwoodie reflects on the realities of back-to-school season today versus her own childhood. While her school…
Exploring Freedom & Confronting Hard Truths in Adoption
In this July episode, host April Dinwoodie explores what freedom really means in adoption - personally, politically, and emotionally. Through four powerful lessons, she unpacks the complexitites of…
Celebrating the Many Hands and Hearts That Hold Us (Part Two): Honoring Fatherhood in All Its Forms
In this heartfelt June episode of Calendar Conversations, host April Dinwoodie continues her two-part series exploring expansive definitions of family. With Father's Day as our guidepost, we honor…
Celebrating the Many Hands and Hearts That Hold Us: Part One - Honoring Motherhood in its Many Forms
This May, we are beginning a special two-part series: Celebrating the Many Hands and Hearts That Hold Us - an exploration of what it means to honor family expansively, through the lens of adoption.…
Naming the Truth: Adoption, Identity & Belonging
In this episode, host April Dinwoodie unpacks the power of names—those given at birth, changed by adoption, or chosen later in life—and the deep emotional weight they carry. For adopted people, names…
March: Luck and Adoption, Blessing and Burdens
March is often associated with luck. For many adopted persons, we hear this word a lot, You are so lucky to be adopted." But is adoption really about luck? Or is it about something much deeper - an…
February: The Intersection of Love and Loss
In this February episode, host April Dinwoodie invites parents of adopted children to acknowledge the reality of loss and its impact on identity. April also allows listeners to reflect together to…
S2 January: Honoring Family Connections
In this first episode of 2025 host April Dinwoodie invites adoptive families to explore the power of the calendar in creating connection, healing, and belonging. January's theme, "Honoring Family…
December: Evolving Traditions
The December holidays give us an opportunity to think about traditions, tied to different cultures and religions. Regardless of what you and your family honor and celebrate, we can be inspired to…
November: Sustaining Strong & Healthy Families
November brings us one of the more complicated historical holidays (Thanksgiving) and for many in the US, one of the more family and food-centric. This month also brings National Adoption Awareness…
October: Revealing What's Under the Mask
Whether you participate in Halloween or not, October 31st has many children and youth dressing up in costumes and wearing masks. But for adopted persons, mask wearing may be a year long or lifelong…
September: Moving Through Life with Clarity & Confidence
As we make our way through the calendar, September is a great time to think about how adoptive families navigate the world and some of the challenges they may face when we show up in the world. Have…
August: Back to School Transitions for Children and Families
Back to school is a time of transition for children and families. It's a time to be thoughtful about what children need when they go into schools everyday. In this episode, April helps prepare…
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Calendar Conversations: A Guide for Adoptive Parents has published 27 episodes since January 2024, covering topics in Education, Kids & Family.
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