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Brandy Lee McCombs

Assistant Professor of Elementary Education at Northeastern State University, PhD, and founder of STL234 Outreaches, speaking on trauma-responsive parenting and education.

Aug 5, 2026

Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care

Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care

Trauma-Responsive Practices To Set Your Kids Up for Success in School

Aug 5 · 53m

Tracy WhitneyHOST
22:18
And 100% when the challenges come.
Brandy Lee McCombsGUEST
22:21
Oh, 100%.
Brandy Lee McCombsGUEST
22:22
And I made the conversation to my husband many times because if we would have had our birth order of our children, I was not ready to be the parent for my youngest.
Brandy Lee McCombsGUEST
22:34
Yeah.
Brandy Lee McCombsGUEST
22:34
If he were my first, I would not have been the parent he needed.
Brandy Lee McCombsGUEST
22:38
And our family dynamics, because our boys are all spread out.
Brandy Lee McCombsGUEST
22:41
So two are already off and married out of the house.

9 MINS LATER

Tracy WhitneyHOST
32:00
How can parents know that these trauma responsive practices that they're employing at home are starting to make a difference, say, in school?

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