From the category archives:

Love

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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Assumptions

February 19, 2010

Kids with Reactive Attachment Disorder can be incredibly mischievous, to put it mildly. Classicly, kids with RAD are sneaky, they steal, they lye, and so on. The list of unpleasant and unacceptable behaviors is long. It is very easy to assume that if something is missing, broken or out of order that our RADish is [...]

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*PIZZAZZ* for RAD Kids

February 16, 2010

*Pizzazz*. I love *pizzazz*. RAD kids make many mistakes – they misbehave, steal, lie, and so on. They seemingly do anything they can to earn consequences. (Please avoid punishment; they had more than enough of that before they came to you.) When they do something correctly and the way we want it, when they do [...]

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RAD and the Brain

January 29, 2010

To understand our kids with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) it is more than helpful to know something about the brain. The more you learn about the brain, the more you will understand your RAD child’s behavior. Here is a brief introduction to the subject. According to Bruce Perry, MD, child psychiatrist and neuroscientist who works [...]

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Big Time Love Is Essential

December 10, 2009

So love is not enough. And love is essential. How much love does my child need? Oh, that’s so simple: all the love you’ve got. Now, that assumes that your love tank is always full, so you must take care of yourself in order to give your child all that love. Here’s the deal. All [...]

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Love Is Not Enough

December 10, 2009

Have you heard this one? “If you only loved your child more, I’m sure she would be fine.” And I’ll bet that the next time you hear that, you’ll feel like screaming or if you’re in a particularly feisty mood you’ll feel like strangling the person who said it. You already love your child. You [...]

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