[Translate] My son came home last night.  It’s been six weeks since I last saw him.  I’m really reaching right now to find the right angle for writing about this.  But, the truth is more boring.  He came in and it was all the same. We were both excited he was there.  I felt like love...

[Translate] I have been made aware – numerous time lately – that I baby my children.  This comes a complete shock to me because I feel like a very ‘independence’ preaching mom.  I always knew that my two youngest, the two with RAD, were a bit more sheltered…because they needed to be. ...

[Translate] I am a bipolar adult and I was a bipolar child.  My mother didn’t really believe in such things as mental illness, so I didn’t receive treatment or know that it even had a name until college.  During college, I was tricked into the campus mental health facility by my very...

[Translate] I had lunch with a group of friends yesterday.  This is not just any random group – but a hastily assembled bunch of moms, met in various fashions and all moms through adoption.  There are five of us.  I seem to be the connecting fiber, but in the small world of both where we live...

[Translate] Republished by Blog Post PromoterI really did read all the books I was supposed to before completing an older child adoption. Everything about attachment, ODD (oppositional defiant disorder), ADHD, basic parenting…parenting a hurt child, a child with no conscience…basically...

[Translate] Co-morbid doesn’t sound like a good word and really, it isn’t.  In the medical world that I live in, it means overlapping or happening together.  Many children/adults with RAD (reactive attachment disorder) are mis-diagnosed or not diagnosed for a long time due to the high likelihood...

[Translate] Help support GIMH! Vote for our Room of Your Own at BlogHer! Log-in to BlogHer and then vote as an attendee. More of my ideas and techniques are below, continued from part one (don’t miss it…).  Same disclaimers apply:  I’m not an expert and these aren’t all...

[Translate] My grab bag of RAD techniques Parenting a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a struggle.  There are those saintly folks out there who can do it with grace and dignity and I am not one of them.  However, through many readings, daily research, an ear to listen to those who’ve...

[Translate] We’re doing something new here at Grown in My Heart…every month we’ll be featuring one of our writers (and eventually one of our amazing readers). Our first writer is Carrie from Signs of Hope, an incredible wife and mother to about one hundred foster children in China. I...

[Translate] I have read a lot of articles, journals, books and anything else I can get my hands on – all about RAD.  I try to soak up the information and promise myself to use it everyday in dealing with my kids. But, I’m human. The information seeps back out my brain and I resort to...