We had no idea how different RAD advocating would be from the norm. Advocating for children with Reactive Attachment Disorder is like no other... Read More →
RAD manipulation often relies on a “divide and conquer” strategy and children who suffer from Reactive Attachment Disorder understand that all... Read More →
When RAD symptoms are used to diagnosis Reactive Attachment Disorder, it provides a roadmap of where to find treatment and what to do to help our... Read More →
No matter how often my daughter used the emotions chart, RAD emotion limitations only allowed her to point at one of two illustrations; angry or... Read More →
It took a long time for me to understand the RAD child emotions that my oldest daughter expressed. I wish I heard what she meant instead of what... Read More →
Rage and apathy must become only a place in the evolution of RAD parent emotions. Eventually, our emotions need to evolve to a different place. I... Read More →
It really wasn’t my daughter, but RAD child anger hurt our other children. It hurt us, as parents. RAD child anger felt like it would shred our... Read More →
The RAD child surprise diagnosis didn’t help. We were looking for the quick fix to a situation that had taken years of a perfect storm to... Read More →
We learned that patience within effective families is different for every individual person and every individual family. We learned more,... Read More →
For two of my daughters, inconsistency in needs being met and the rotating caregivers that provided for those needs made up the incubator that... Read More →
My wife and I had three sons biologically before adoption added another six. (It’s a long story…) Three of our children that we adopted have... Read More →