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Trauma Informed Parenting

Has your kid ever told you he is trying to do the right thing but his brain (or head, mind etc.) is telling him to do wrong? Maybe you freaked out thinking your kid was losing his mind. You may have also experienced this yourself, you know the old angel and devil on your shoulders […]

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My Life by: Spy KAM

Hey all! Kai wanted to take a chance at writing! He wanted to tell his life story. This has taken him a very long time to put together and I kept as much of it to his grammatical creations as I could handle. These are his words alone and he is very proud of his […]

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RAD

Living a RAD life

Do you know what it’s like to jump every time the phone rings; always in constant fear of what happens next?  Or to jump when you hear sirens and pray this time they aren’t coming to your home?  Have you ever feared falling asleep in your own home; feared your child could be the cause […]

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Adoption
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Behind The Scenes of Adoption

So many people ask how we went from “Just Us” to a family of four, so here it is! If you read The Story of Us Pt. 1 you’ve already got the beginning of this story so I will start from where we left off there. . . When you have decided you’d like to […]

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Adoption
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RAD

This Ain’t Your Momma’s Discipline aka Parenting in a RAD World

What is RAD? I cannot even recall a time when this term was not such a huge part of my life. RAD or Reactive Attachment Disorder has changed my life so much more than I knew it could. The first time I heard the term was so many years ago in training for case management. It […]

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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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Adoption
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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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