RAD Religion: Reactive Attachment Disorder
It didn’t take long for me to see that I was much more like my children who had RAD, than I was like God. I call it RAD religion. When it Comes…
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Disorders/Mental Illness
RAD Empathy: Reactive Attachment Disorder
A note to my own friends and family about how I need RAD empathy during the holidays. Feel free to share with yours if you need RAD empathy, too. I Need…
RAD Relief: Reactive Attachment Disorder
For me, that little bit of thanks equates to RAD relief. And everybody needs to be appreciated. The RAD Relief We All Need Is To Be Appreciated Please forgive me. For almost…
RAD Reality: Reactive Attachment Disorder
If we do all the right things, our children will get better (than they are). But they might never “get better.” And that is RAD reality. The Realist is the…
RAD Punishment: Reactive Attachment Disorder
RAD punishment is something that must require our utmost planning and introspection. To do more good than harm, there are many things to consider. What do Our Actions Speak When we…
RAD Guilt Trips: Reactive Attachment Disorder
If RAD parents are working with programs or institutions that use RAD guilt trips to manipulate them, the programs are doing more harm than good. If All of the Guilt Trips Were…
RAD Siblings: Reactive Attachment Disorder
The most urgent thing is not always the most important thing. Our other children, the RAD siblings, need us too. This One’s for Chelsea Stump and all the RAD Siblings Like Her.…
RAD Sabotage: Reactive Attachment Disorder
In spending the last ten years parenting several children with Reactive Attachment Disorder, I see five basic reasons for why they engage in RAD sabotage. Oh, What I’d Give for a Birthday…
RAD Scheduling: Reactive Attachment Disorder
RAD scheduling means that we must deal with other priorities in between raging wildfires. If not, Reactive Attachment Disorder will consume everything. It’s Kind of Like Vacuuming up Dust on the Moon…
RAD Normal: Reactive Attachment Disorder
RAD normal was abnormal, but since my daughters didn’t understand anything different, they became most comfortable with RAD normal. Not “Normal” Normal, but RAD Normal In the comments section of one of…
RAD Books: Reactive Attachment Disorder
I think that the understanding of children from hard places is at a point of moving from teams of horses to tractors. For me, this really shows in RAD books. No Two…
RAD Attitude: Reactive Attachment Disorder
Like most parents of children who suffer from Reactive Attachment Disorder, My RAD attitude varies, depending on the circumstances of the day, week or month. What’s my Rad-itude? Really, it Depends on…