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Challenging Children

3 Effective Steps that Will Prevent Unwanted Visits from Police When Your Challenging Child is Raging

July 19, 2010

This is all about worries of unwanted law enforcement intervention when a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) has raging and violent tantrums which may requires physical restraint for the safety of everyone. Our sweet RADish, healing as she is, still has fits of tantrum and rage. She is known to kick and scream, just [...]

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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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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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