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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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…
Family Days: Family Building Values
Despite the stress of me being out of my element, I love vacations and the family days I can spend with my wife, my children and my parents. Building the Days I…
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.…
Family Dance: Family Building Values
State of the art parenting techniques are now coming out of the child trauma therapy field. These newer methods provide instruction for family dance that are out of this world. Family Life…
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…