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Calm Parenting Podcast

Do Adopted Kids Struggle More? Part #1 #460

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Parenting

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Do Adopted Kids Struggle More? Part #1 #460

Parents often believe if you adopt a child from birth and provide a loving home, that will mitigate most issues. It doesn’t usually work that way. There is no judgment here. Just the reality that trauma triggers different issues. That can manifest in kids with an insatiable craving for intensity, sensory pressure, connection, food, and things. Adoptive parents should not feel guilty or alone when their kids struggle. Please share this with support groups and other adoptive parents who need both encouragement and practical tools to help the kids they love so much.


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1:04.1

So I remember the exact moment 20 years ago when it hit me that our adopted kids often have

1:10.3

more intense needs than

1:12.0

other kids.

1:13.0

I was roughhousing with this boy named Alexander.

1:15.8

He'd been adopted from Russia.

1:17.6

And it seemed like all the Russian kids we worked with were named Alexander.

1:21.0

He was this fiery little guy who craved sensory pressure, attention, affirmation, and

1:26.8

things, especially anything other kids

1:30.1

had that he didn't we were wrestling out on the lawn when my knee accidentally hit

1:34.9

him in the head and I noticed a switch flipped in his eyes his face turned red there

1:40.9

was rage shame betrayal anger it's kind of like he'd been disrespected.

1:46.0

And he put his head down as if he were a bull about to charge me. And we were just learning a

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