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Feelings

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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Mother’s Day for Challenging Children

May 12, 2010

Happy Mother’s Day! A few days late with a purpose. How was Mother’s Day for your child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)? I intentionally waited until the day after Mother’s Day to send a greeting for two reasons. First, I wanted Mother’s Day to be a day with my family to celebrate and honor the [...]

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