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Exercise

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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Jumping Jacks!

January 29, 2010

Good old fashioned jumping jacks are excellent exercises for our challenging children. And it all gets back to the brain. When a challenging child gets stuck in all those charming ways that challenging children have – argumentative, defiance, tantrums, and so on – you can bet that something has triggered that fight or flight response. [...]

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