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Taking Three RAD Kids on a Two-Week Vacation 6 Aug 2013 | 04:43 am
My girlfriend said to me, “Two weeks?! I’ve never gone on a two-week vacation with my kids. I can hardly handle the stress of even packing a bag for a weekend!” Hmm, maybe should have thought of that....
I’ll See You One and Raise You Twenty 3 Jul 2013 | 12:45 pm
Someone once told me–someone who raised two biological and two adopted RAD kids–that each RAD kid was equal to twenty biological kids, give or take. This mother was past the actual child-rearing so sh...
Did Ted Bundy Have RAD? 24 Jun 2013 | 11:02 am
It’s a long story, but I just finished reading a book about Ted Bundy. The book I read, The Stranger Beside Me, was written by Ann Rule, a former Seattle cop-turned-writer who just happened to work wi...
I Think He Finally Sees His Future 19 Jun 2013 | 10:26 am
My seventeen-year-old son eked out passing grades and has finished his junior year of high school. Yesterday he started a summer-session welding program at the local applied technology college. He’s a...
How Do You Help a Desperate Girl? 11 Jun 2013 | 01:11 pm
My heart is breaking for my daughter tonight, and at the same time, I’m just sick over her behavior toward yet another girl that could have been a friend but for Kaylyn’s actions. The latest incident ...
Mystery Solved – So That’s Why She Has No Friends 5 Jun 2013 | 11:07 am
I found a note in my daughter’s jeans the other day while I was doing laundry. It was from a girl at school and basically called Kaylyn out for being a fake friend, accused her of not really caring an...
Oh, the Pain of No Friends 27 May 2013 | 11:18 am
My darling, sweet, totally socially clueless fifteen-year-old daughter can’t make (or keep) a friend to save her life. The more desperately she chases after friends, the faster they run. Just this wee...
The Ups and Downs of Independence 21 May 2013 | 09:42 am
So I gave my seventeen-year-old son the driver’s wheel on his high school education. Not because I wanted to, but because what I was doing wasn’t working. Supervising him closely and catching all his ...
When Talking to Friends Doesn’t Help 13 May 2013 | 10:29 am
Parents of Reactive Attachment Disorder kids are caught in a bind. On the one hand, few of us just happen to have within our circle of intimates close friends who are also parenting RAD kids. On the o...
When Giving Up Works 7 May 2013 | 10:04 am
We reached the end of the road with my seventeen-year-old son who will not do his school work. We’ve tried peanut butter sandwiches instead of yummy food until his work is turned in. We even tried cha...
