Reactive Attachment Disorder Family Bonding with your Reactive Attachment Child is difficult but possible following bonding techniques, keeping a structured environment, and if necessary with RAD therapy. Love alone will not help you bond with your RAD child. But with patience, acceptance, love, RAD parenting skills and RAD therapy bonding can take place. Keys to … Read more
Reactive Attachment Disorder Parenting Tips Parenting a Reactive Attachment Disorder child, who has not learned to trust, is difficult. Without trust, there is no respect, honesty, or real affection. Lectures, warnings, hollering, bribes, second chances, and reminders do NOT work. You are wasting your time and breath. Your child knows the rules he or she … Read more
RAD Signs, Symptoms & Causes Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) children are often described as angry, lying, uncaring, and violent children. The signs and symptoms are as varied as the causes. What is Reactive Attachment Disorder? Reactive Attachment Disorder is a condition where individuals have difficulty forming loving, lasting intimate relationships. They do not trust anyone … Read more
Attachment Parenting is not a new style of parenting. It’s an approach based on the way you would care for your children naturally without the influence of professionals. Dr. William and Martha Sears named and recommended practices for this approach based on over thirty years of their parenting experience and observations of other parents. Your … Read more
Why Breastfeeding, Baby Wearing & Co-Sleeping are Misunderstood Attachment parenting is a parenting philosophy that is soaring in popularity. Still, there are many traditional or mainstream parents who do not understand the movement. Most people are familiar with the key components of attachment parenting; breastfeeding, babywearing and co-sleeping. It is no longer unusual to see … Read more
Helping Gifted Children Reduce Stress and Enjoy Success Gifted children can be taught to harness their drive to succeed in healthy, productive ways that make both their lives, and their parent’s lives less stressful. Most folks know an “A” type person – someone who is a high achieving, almost fixated (and sometimes quite definitely) on … Read more
GATE Students Enjoy Storytelling Bright, advanced or gifted and talented students enjoy finding ways to express themselves, and as acting and improvisation, storytelling can be very fulfilling. Teachers, in general, can sometimes find it difficult to find lessons that can help bright, advanced or gifted and talented students gain some fresh perspectives by using higher-order … Read more
High-Level Readers Need Help Choosing Appropriate Books Helping gifted and talented students choose appropriate reading materials is a tricky road; gifted children tend to read voraciously and at high levels. These reading habits are understandable characteristics of giftedness; gifted children are cognitively more developed than is normally expected. However, gifted readers need guidance in book … Read more
Helping Gifted Children Fit In With Their Peers Many gifted children are faced with challenges in socialization. Although unique, it is possible for gifted kids to make friends and grow up socially happy. Gifted children often have a more difficult time making friends than other kids. While they may be outgoing and friendly, their thought … Read more
Determining When Whole-Grade Skipping Is Right for Gifted Kids The Iowa Acceleration Scale explores a gifted and talented child’s academic, social, and emotional development to determine if skipping grades is currently beneficial. Your gifted child participates in the school’s weekly pullout gifted program, highest grade level math and reading groups, summer gifted camps, and as … Read more