PANS, PANDAS & life after a diagnosis of Lyme Disease So in the 3 years since I put away my keyboard and started focusing on other things, a lot happened in our lives. In August 2014, when I wrote this post, I had no idea what was even possible for us going forward. We had […]
Options for IEP and 504 kids who are still failing…
Life for us is a mad scramble, every day the same but different. Again, other parents drop their kid at the school gates and kiss them goodbye until 3 pm; whereupon they pick up their dysregulated, tired but usually happy, child. I on the other hand drop my kid off at 8.20 and run home, […]
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) a spectrum.
Anxious attachment, adoption trauma, anxiety, borderline personality disorder… Sadly From Survival to Serenity no longer encourages the sharing of the graphic but if you want to read further, and I heartily encourage you to, on Saturday, August 23, 2014, From Survival To Serenity published a post titled: Educating About RAD. If you read my last post you […]
Their uniqueness may very well be their strength in the future …
But we must get them there before that can happen. The only problem is getting others on board with that philosophy too. Society has an ingrained need and desire to make everyone conform to their own standards, especially true of public schools. Often the desire to drill down and over focus on the negatives drives […]
I have never seen a kid apologize for being so oppositional WHILE being oppositional!
I feel like I am in the twilight zone most of the time, he cusses like a sailor, is disrespectful, angry and irritated by anyone and everyone for no reason other than he might have seen the back of their heads. My husband and I are so non confrontational it is probably unhealthy, my children […]