This episode is specifically for dads who have kids or work with kids who have trauma, issues, behavior challenges and attachment issues. If you’re looking for help or guidance in these areas, I’ve brought a guest whose approach is rooted in empathy, understanding, and evidence-based techniques, creating a space where parents can learn and grow together.Ryan North joins me in this episode. Ryan together with his wife are a team who founded One Big Happy Home, a platform that provides valuable resources and support to parents, churches and schools. They also have a passion for working with foster parents because out of their six children, four joined their family through adoption from the foster care system.You can learn more about Ryan and Kayla North, One Big Happy Home, get coaching, listen to their podcast or sign up for their parenting boot camp at:https://www.onebighappyhome.com/Special thanks to InGenius Prep for sponsoring The Fatherhood Challenge. To learn more about InGenius Prep or to claim your free consultation, visit: htCreate your podcast today! #madeonzencastrtps://ingeniusprep.com/get-a-free-consultation/?utm_campaign=2024+Podcast+Email+Marketing&utm_content=Fatherhood+Podcast&utm_medium=Fatherhood+Podcast&utm_source=Fatherhood+Podcast&utm_term=Fatherhood+PodcastCreate your podcast today! #madeonzencastrTranscription - Wisdom From a Dad of Six---This episode is specifically for dads who have kids or work with kids who have trauma issues,behavioral challenges, and attachment issues.If you're looking for help or guidance in these areas, I brought a guest whose approachis rooted in empathy, understanding, and evidence-based techniques.He will join us in just a moment so don't go anywhere.Before we begin, I'd like to thank our proud sponsor of this episode and the FatherhoodChallenge, Ingenious Prep.Ingenious Prep is the world's premier admissions consulting firm, proud to be officially recognizedas the country's top college admissions consultants, helping students prepare for admissionsto top schools through individualized educational programs that increase chances of admissionby up to 10 times.Ingenious Prep students work with former admission officers to differentiate themselvesfrom other competitive students in three areas colleges evaluate students.In academics, extracurricular activities, and personal characteristics.Just this past admission cycle, Ingenious Prep students have secured 110 offers from IvyLeague schools, 268 offers, from top 20 schools, and 904 offers from top 50 schools.Ingenious Prep students' success lies within the fact that Ingenious Prep is an all-in-oneconsulting firm offering every service of family needs, whether it be test prep,tailored candidacy, building mentorship, academic mentorships, the leadership, and innovationlab, soft skills courses, writing courses, and other customized programs to develop theirapplication persona to the most effective and authentic extent to share with colleges.Just click on the link in the episode description to book a free strategy call with one of IngeniousPrep's College experts.Greetings everyone.Thank you so much for joining me.My guest is Ryan North.Ryan and Kayla are a husband and wife team who founded one big, happy home, a platform thatprovides valuable resources and support to parents, churches, and schools.They also have a passion for working with foster parents because out of their six children,four, joined their family through adoption from one foster care system.Ryan, thank you so much for being on the Fatherhood Challenge.Thanks for having me.Okay, so this is one of my favorite parts of the program, and that is our traditionaldad joke.So Ryan, what is your favorite dad joke?What is a ninja's favorite drink?Hmm, I know I haven't heard this one before.What?It doesn't get more original than that.I absolutely love that joke.Let's start with your story about your journey of educating families and caretakers abouttrauma, behavior changes, and attachment issues.And where did you get your journey as a foster parent?Where does this all fit into your story?When my wife and I got married and we started discussing, you know, what our family mightlook like in the future, it turns out that both of us had a connection through our familiesto adoption, foster care.She had had a grandparent who'd been a foster parent.She now actually has a cousin who's a foster parent.And my dad was raised by his aunt and uncle in what we were today called a kinship, a kinshipplacement.Of course, in the mid-1950s, no such term existed, right?And so he was raised by his aunt and uncle, the only grandparents I have ever known werehis aunt and uncle.And so that kind of has always been an undercurrent in both of our families.And so we were pretty pleased to discover in the other person that they had a connectionto adoption, foster care, and it was something that we had both thought about coming to ourmarriage.Before we grew our family, we ...
