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A Letter To My Adopted Child’s Reactive Attachment Disorder

February 11, 2015 by Laurie Wallin 13 Comments

Dear Reactive Attachment Disorder, You are not my favorite person right now. In fact, you're a bully and I'm still waiting for you to move out of my house. You've bound my girl for ten years, already. Isn't that enough? Yes, you kept her alive for a short season. Yes, you helped her cope when life bounced her from home to home those first years. I get it. But ever since then, you've been a loud, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption, Laurie Wallin, Scripture Tagged With: Get Your Joy Back, Grief and special needs, hope, reactive attachment disorder, special needs adoption

Am I a bad parent?

November 7, 2014 by Laurie Wallin 2 Comments

The hardest part for me about parenting a child with special needs is the insecurity. Insecurity. . .  with professionals who seem to know so much more than I feel like I do with friends and family who secretly and not-so-secretly disagree on the reasons my adopted kids act the way they do. when I pick up the monthly slew of psychiatric meds at our pharmacy and fear what the 19 year … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption, Behaviors, Laurie Wallin, Living Life Daily, Mental Illness Tagged With: attachment disorder, parenting a child with special needs, reactive attachment disorder

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