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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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Respite Providers Wanted

April 23, 2010

Parents of children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) want you! We absolutely need respite providers. Yesterday I was taking care of a young girl with rather serious RAD and thinking about the irony that here I was providing respite care and we have no one to help us with our daughter! The fact is that [...]

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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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