Attaching Hearts

Cate's last post is crucial...in my humble opinion. An absolutely crucial concept for Christ following parents of kids struggling w/att...

Lord of miracles, give me a phileo love for this child, especially in the hardest moments.

God's timing is always so amazing. I just posted on defining this Mommy love thing. Then tonight it was the root of a 24+ crazy cycle....

A few years after she came home...it became apparent to me that our Girlie needed to hear truth from us about her early life. She was not...

I talked a bit last year about the seemingly emptiness of the word Mommy as it rolls off a little RADtastics lips.  At times it feels like ...

My kiddos came home around preschool age from an international orphanage.  All of them have vivid memories.  Some have more of them than oth...

"I am really excited to use the talent that God has given me. Please pray. I am a bit nervous because I am worried that I will mess the...

I really like the Connected Child by Purvis . I feel like it is one of the few books that gives handles on how to address behavior. I love ...

So here's a conclusion I've come to: The Lord has most assuredly used/is using RAD to dig up and expose some yuckinesss in the heart...

The Lord loves us exactly how we are...but too much to let us stay this way.

What do you believe about the (click here) nature of man ? About the nature of our kids? Of our kids struggling w/RAD? Like Dr. Jekyll and...

I think pre-adoption it was so easy to put things in cute little adoption boxes. Boxes that made sense in my mind. Some might have even ha...

Stay the course....even when you feel like throwing in the towel...do not. Consistent...firm....loving relationships. Truth in love. Alwa...

Taken from radkid.org . * Avoidant o Unreasonable or inappropriate anger o Hostile o Overcritical of other...

We cease to grow when we cease either to labor or to suffer for the Lord. ~Charles Spurgeon This wounded, draining, challenging child was ch...