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Adoption
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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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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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