Reactive Attachment Disorder

Last year, my 10 year old daughter and I had an interesting conversation. It started with my husband and I talking with her about how she tries to manipulate & control people. We were basically talking with her about how people want to be treated and that manipulating & controlling people, and situations is not a way to gain trust. So we asked her why she thinks she does it. She thought for a moment and said “I...

Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder

My husband, our son ‘C’ and our friends go to Daytona every year for the Rolex race. The friends they go with are my childrens former foster brother (who got adopted soon after them) and his father. ‘C’ always enjoy himself while he’s there. It’s when he comes back that there’s a problem. The day after we go anywhere, he’s usually very argumentative, short tempered and does a...

Dave Thomas Foundation

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is close to my heart because my own children came to us through a foster care adoption. They help bring awareness to foster care adoption through programs such as “Adoption-Friendly Workplace” and their annual television special ‘A Home For the Holidays’ and From their site: …dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of the more than 140,000...