RAD

Reactive Attachment Disorder

Parenting
RAD
School Issues

Seven Hour IEP Meeting

We beat our record today. Our longest IEP meeting to date was 6 hours. Today it was seven. 10:30 am to 5:30 pm and we are not even done. What did we accomplish? Honestly more than we have ever before but only due to the fact that we had our newly assigned Advocate/ Investigator from […]

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Parenting
RAD

When a RAD Miracle Occurs

Today my son came home from jail. My little boy, all 75 pounds of him, just wanted his mommies to snuggle him. He had special time with Mom when they got home from the jail and I came home from work to take over. He lay with me for over an hour just holding on […]

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Parenting
RAD

The Homes That Built Me

From 2005 until today I have lived in 11 homes. 13 years, 11 homes. I was 18 years old when this list began. I am 31 years old today.  2383 **** Melbourne FL 32935- November 2017 to Present 1249 **** Melbourne FL 32935- November 2014 to Nov 2017 1805 **** Melbourne FL 32935- October 2012 […]

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Adoption
Mental health
Parenting
RAD

Teachable Moments…

September 30, 2016 So it finally happened. One of my boys, Malik this time, decided he would throw down in public today at CVS. He had gotten in trouble for fighting on the bus and just escalated from there. Pretty sure the people who pulled up beside us believed he had been kidnapped and called […]

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