I went to a training this last week put on by Nancy Thomas locally. It was an excellent opportunity that I couldn’t pass on and I am glad I went. I found as always answers to my questions that I didn’t even know I had until someone else asked them. And one I want to… [Continue Reading]
Prescribe the Behavior
March 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of our favorite things to do with our RAD kids is to prescribe the behavior. What exactly does that mean? Well let me explain. (First of all, I’d like to say that many parenting techniques that work for healthy kids will not work for kids with Reactive Attachment Disorder. However, I believe that many… [Continue Reading]
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Can’t Get Your Kid To Go To School? Do What We Do!
March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This morning our RAD kid decided he wasn’t going to school. We’ve struggled with this before, and now Nancy Thomas has given us the answer. At least it worked this time! I think it’s a great technique for Oppositional Defiant Disorder kiddos too. It should work for any kid that wants to have control. The… [Continue Reading]
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Wimpy Mom – Part 2
February 4, 2011 By 3 Comments
I recently shared about my adventures in revamping some of my less than effective parenting skills with my kids who have reactive attachment disorders. I wanted to share another thing I was taught during that respite therapy week. This second thing is not so easily identifiable. Mostly it came in the form of timidity, not… [Continue Reading]
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James Lehman
February 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
James Lehman created The Total Transformation, a comprehensive, multi-media program offering parents practical solutions to the most challenging problems facing them from their children, including disrespect, lying, swearing, defiance and acting out in school. James Lehman, MSW (Masters of Social Work) worked for more than 30 years with troubled teens, children, and their families to… [Continue Reading]
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Wimpy Mom
January 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I have thought that after all this time in working with attachment disorder in children that I was fairly straight forward and lovingly strict. Wrong! My adopted children have shown me that I am a wimpy, frightened mom. You see last week, I took one of my sweetums to a week of respite therapy. It… [Continue Reading]
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What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?
January 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What is Attachment? In order to understand exactly what Reactive Attachment Disorder (or just Attachment Disorder) is, first we need to explain what attachment is. Attachment in this defined in Wikipedia as “an emotional connection. Attachment involves being dependent on someone for something: emotional, mental or physical.” When we’re talking about attachment on this site,… [Continue Reading]
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Total Transformation Reviews
January 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you’ve been looking for Total Transformation Reviews on the internet, you’ve stumbled across the right site. Quite often, the people that review products don’t actually use the product, they’ll just listen to the CD’s or read the book, and write a review based on their feelings whether the product will work or not. This… [Continue Reading]
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Does The Total Transformation Really Work?
January 14, 2011 By 22 Comments
One of the questions that quite often gets asked when people come to this website is does Total Transformation really work? They want to know many different individual’s opinions on the program when they don’t have anything to gain or lose from reviewing it. (Click here to see a sample of the type of training you’ll find… [Continue Reading]
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Can “Scared Straight” Work on a Daily Basis?
September 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Remember the program that we saw as teens called “Scared Straight”? It was about teenagers who were in juvenile detention that had meetings with adults currently in the prison system. The adult prisoners minced no words in explaining how they had wasted their lives and how these teens were wasting theirs too. And they used… [Continue Reading]
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