4 Most Important Medical Tests for Attachment and Behavioral Disorders
Written by Aimie Apigian, MD. Let’s play the “What If” game for a second……What if… there was an underlying biology problem in your child that…
Tools to Help Toddlers with RAD
Toddlers have meltdowns. Toddler’s with RAD ,Reactive Attachment Disorder, having major meltdowns rather than mini meltdowns. Having some tools to help them to calm makes…
Children with RAD, “Mom Shopping”
It just hurts! When a child approaches a strange woman and bats their eyes while oozing with cuteness then tell her how beautiful she is,…
Step Two to Healing- Power Food
By Nancy Thomas I was reaching for the whole milk in the grocery store when another shopper looked down her nose and growled, “ You…
First Step to Healing RAD
Passing the 5 Tests for Trust with RAD Children with RAD, Reactive Attachment Disorder, are searching for a super hero to keep them safe.…
RAD: Twisted by Trauma
Written by Nancy Thomas Trauma hurts. It ripples through lives creating a tidal wave of health problems well documented in the “ACE” studies. Horrendous things…
RAD, Healing the Foundation
An old Bedouin metaphor says: Never let a camel get his nose in your tent. In the US we say: “Give them an inch and…
RAD: Top Tools to Stop Critics
There are severe challenges to living with and helping to heal a child with RAD child. Critics that have judged and condemned parents without all…
Great Dads of RAD
My friend Tim said, “This week with my daughter has been like living in a firestorm. She keeps creating sparks and embers for me to…
RAD, Is It Rare?
Written by Nancy Thomas My stomach turned! Once again a gentle loving family had been misguided and hurt for years by an adoption worker telling…