Steady Ground Parenting
A podcast for parents raising children through hard seasons.
If you’re a parent raising a child through hard seasons, you’re in the right place. Steady Ground Parenting is Speak Up for Kids’ parenting podcast, equipping foster, adoptive, kinship, and trauma-aware parents with practical tools to help children impacted by foster care, childhood trauma, and family disruption heal, grow, and thrive.
Children who have lived through abuse, neglect, foster care, or family disruption often experience the world differently. Traditional parenting approaches don’t always meet their needs. Each episode offers practical strategies, expert insights, and honest conversations. Steady Ground Parenting helps you better understand behavior; strengthen connection; navigate attachment, emotional regulation, and challenging behaviors; and parent with greater confidence and compassion.
Whether you’re a foster parent, adoptive parent, kinship caregiver, or a parent seeking trauma-informed parenting strategies, you’ll gain practical tools you can begin using right away. Every episode is designed to help you look beyond the behavior, build trust, and create safe, steady relationships where healing can happen.
Hosted by Speak Up for Kids and driven by student leaders, this podcast extends our mission of mitigating trauma and cultivating self-worth in the lives of children impacted by foster care. Find more information about our mission at impact at https://speakupforkidspbc.org.
Find us on social media:
Facebook: Speak Up For Kids
Instagram: @speakupforkidspbc
TikTok: @speakupforkids
YouTube: @speakupforkidspbc2586
If you are interested in joining us on the podcast, please email inquiries to parents@speakupforkidspbc.org.
Steady Ground Parenting
Latest Episodes
A podcast for parents raising children through hard seasons.
Healing Hearts is now Steady Ground Parenting!Welcome to the next chapter of the Speak Up For Kids podcast for parents raising children through hard seasons. We’re continuing the conversations you know and love, but with a deeper focus ...
How to stop reacting and start responding as a parent | Christina Brown
When family life, work, relationships, and a million other things are all competing for your attention, it's easy to react instead of responding the way you want to.Christina Brown is a Catholic life coach, speaker, podcaster, and mother...
Your teen needs this, not a perfect parent | Sophia Vale Galano
Is your teen struggling with anxiety, but every step you take to help only seems to push them further away?Supporting an anxious teenager can be exhausting and overwhelming, leaving you unsure whether you’re saying the right thing. Licen...
How to talk to your teen about anxiety without pushing them away | Sophia Vale Galano
Maybe your teenager has opened up about feeling anxious, but the conversation seems to end in frustration every time you try to help. Or, maybe they don't talk about it at all, which keeps you up at night worrying about their wellbeing.S...
Why teenagers push back, and how parents should respond | Will Dobud
Most parents feel like they’re constantly correcting and disciplining their teens, yet their behavior never seems to change. If every conversation turns into an argument, or it feels like you're losing your relationship with your teen, this epi...
