My Family Vacation
In September I went to California with my family. I never thought I am going with my family to vacation . Also I love my family because they care about me. I…
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Reactive Attachment Disorder
Reactive Attachment Disorder Help me, Please!
“My six-year-old daughter has Reactive Attachment Disorder. Help me, please! I can’t take it anymore!” My heart went out as it always does when I read pleas like this one, typed in a…
Staying Positive: Look at how far We’ve Come, not how far we Have to go
Last week my family and I drove to San Diego to watch the U.S. Marine boot camp graduation for my son. I didn’t realize I would be learning a life lesson from…
Back to School With Reactive Attachment Disorder: 10 Things to do
Your child is heading back to school with Reactive Attachment Disorder. If you’re like me, that’s good news and bad news. My kids that have RAD feel just like I do. We…
I Have Lots of Problems About my Life
Emily on a beach at Golden Horn Bay, near Vladivostok, soon after leaving her orphanage. First I came to Amarica, first I make bad choices. And when I come to Amarica I…
Russian Orphans: The Moisieva Koshkina Family
The Moiseyeva/Koshkina family lived in half of this duplex in Fralovka, Russia. This is where Maria Anatolievna Moiseyeva and Vitaly Anatolievich Moiseyev were born. Recently we changed things in this document to…
Hypervigilance and Reactive Attachment Disorder: Vacations
Hypervigilance and Reactive Attachment Disorder make vacations the Devil! To this day I can’t make a sudden move near any of my children who have Reactive Attachment Disorder without them throwing up…
Vacations and Reactive Attachment Disorder
Vacations and Reactive Attachment Disorder... the Devil! It hadn’t been a week since my older daughters and I returned home from California when I got the Facebook message. One of the awesome parents…
Finding Faith: Why Does God Care?
Finding Faith Finding faith, for me, never comes easy. Maybe it's true… things are always in the last place you look. While I was raised in an active Christian home and…
Reactive Attachment Disorder, Punishment Escalations Would Never Work
Raising Emily was so much different. The whole game changed. Even though one of our other children had RAD, until Emily came home, we never understood that with Reactive Attachment Disorder, punishment…
Reactive Attachment Disorder Therapy: Five Signs That Your Child has the Wrong Therapist
You-are-not-crazy. You weren’t crazy before you brought this child into your home. In fact, before you did that no one ever thought you were crazy. No one else caused you to question…
Reactive Attachment Disorder Diagnosis for Your Child
Reactive Attachment Disorder diagnosis isn’t like Down syndrome or Muscular Dystrophy in that the condition (as others that are mental rather than physical) is far more obscure. You can’t just stick a needle…