RADical Adventures

every day with a child with RAD is an adventure. we have two!

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Could Jesus parent RADical kids?

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I found myself recently typing "Even Jesus would have a hard time caring for hurt kids" when I stopped to consider.  Would he?  ...
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Saturday, March 1, 2014

My Orlando

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As soon as I saw this, I knew I had to tweak it for Orlando. ❤  This is for all of my trauma mamas, especially my Haven family who keeps ...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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For a few years now, we've really been struggling with Cj, our "normal" child (if that doesn't offend you), our Neuro-Typi...

Torture with love

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How do you torture your RADical darling? With love notes.  :) 
Friday, May 10, 2013

Mother's Day

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In case you remember last year's Mothers Day cards , wow, this year was a bit better.  Hopefully that means more healing has taken place...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

Too hard!

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I don't want to do dishes. They're too hard.  It's too boring.  It's no fun...  Have a drama queen RADical at your house too...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Lessons RAD teaches about God

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Along the lines of my RAD-inspired post about God loves every one of us NO MATTER WHAT we are/say/do , tonight another RADical thought hit u...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Therapeutic parenting, right upside my head

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You know when you’re super busy haughtily judging someone and it hits you... hard... right upside the head... that you do the same thing? Y...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

She doesn't like love

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Em's come so far, but she still doesn't like love. Or the thought of liking love. The other day I heard her reading, "Surely g...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

They get it

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Sometimes your RADicals get it, and can even joke with you about it.  These two brought me this book saying I needed it! :) 
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Homeschooling RAD

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Why we homeschool our kids with RAD .  I wanted to share how we chose   fell into   were nudged into   were forced to   tried not to   acci...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Seeing her feelings

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One thing we've always done with em is "show" her her feelings (suggested by her AT). Since she doesn't feel her feelings...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012

First Mothers' Day

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Pretty big issues around here lately, so we’ve been doing lots of therapy and working on things. I don’t see a light at the end of the tunn...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Maybe I'm just right

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It's my husband's turn to mourn our "what could have been" ideas today but in our discussion today he had a good insight. ...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Chaos to Healing

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Have a RADical child? Then buy this now! Chaos to Healing is a 99 minute Therapeutic Parenting 101 DVD by Christine Moers and Billy Kaplan...
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we're a family of 5 living an incredible adventure together in an RV! we have three adopted kids ages 15, 15, and 12 - two with reactive attachment disorder (RAD), all with past trauma. these are the true stories of our family, although names have been changed to protect the innocent (and guilty).
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