From the monthly archives:

June 2010

3 More Important Ways for Challenging Children to Process Feelings

June 17, 2010

Challenging Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) have big feelings of anger, grief and fear resulting from the first years of their lives. To  heal their hearts these feelings must be addressed. Naturally your attachment therapist will help your child to discover and manage those feelings. Therapy, though, is generally once a week. The rest [...]

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A Powerful Method to Help Challenging Children Process Feelings

June 15, 2010

In the previous blog post I discussed the five question approach to helping your Challenging Child to process feelings after acting out. Now I want to introduce a very powerful method for the processing of feelings in general. When processing feelings, never lecture. NEVER. If you lecture, you raise the risk that your child will [...]

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Five Important Questions to Help Your Challenging Child Process Feelings

June 14, 2010

When your Challenging Child has had some kind of outburst, it is important to take time together to process the feelings and reconnect. To do that, it is a good idea to sit together on a sofa or big enough easy chair where you can be close. It is ideal to bring your child onto [...]

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8 Critical Tips for Dealing with Splitting by Your Challenging Child

June 1, 2010

One of the more serious difficulties faced by parents of Challenging Children is triangulation or splitting. Simply stated this is when sweetums sets one parent against the other. Of course this is something that can happen in any family. You know the drill. “Mom, can I get an ice cream cone?” Mom: “No.” Later to [...]

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