Traditional parenting techniques can prove problematic when used with
kids with attachment issues.
Typically, professionals misdiagnose
kids with attachment disorder for ADHD and / or depression and prescribe medications such as stimulants and anti-depressants accordingly.
People often ask what we do at the Institute that makes a difference for
kids with attachment disorder.
Kids with attachment disorders make their teachers believe they can't do the work — a case of learned helplessness.
Today, Jan and Tom are full time treatment partners in helping
kids with attachment disorder.
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Yet,
kids with attachment issues specifically do need attachment therapy, not traditional therapy.
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School is often a social outlet for
kids with attachment disorder to get away from their families.
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Truth be told,
kids with attachment disorder are tough.
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Kids with attachment disorder wear out summer camp staff quickly.
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Kids with attachment disorder are very good at manipulating all the adults in their lives.
Forrest describes what happens when
kids with attachment disorder — left untreated — grow up.
They truly understand how to work with
kids with attachment disorder.
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Some have been observed to exhibit behaviors that are usually seen in
kids with attachment disorder.
It's pretty common for
kids with attachment and trauma problems to include «sticky fingers», aka, a problem with stealing.
Kids with attachment issues are deeply, seriously, and most of them, permanently damaged.
By Daniel B. HCC Client and Proud Adoptive Dad To parents of
kids with attachment problems: I know things are really hard for you and your kid (s) right now.
Is Collaborative Problem Solving a good fit for
kids with attachment issues?
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Kids with attachment issues have keen abilities to manipulate adults, distort realities, and gain control — this is a part of the disorder.
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Kids with attachment disorder struggle to develop healthy relationships with teachers, coaches, daycare providers, peers, and others.
Mention you're adopting, and people will often lean in with bizarre schadenfreude shining in their eyes and share some terrible story of a friend of a friend whose adopted
kid with an attachment disorder burned their house down.
Not exact matches
Many of our constituents, who have built emotional
attachments through years of building relationships
with these
kids, are devastated by this wrenching cutoff.
I see this idea a lot — that
kids raised
with gentle discipline,
Attachment Parenting, whatever you want to call it — are brats whose overly - permissive parents give them no boundaries.
It may be that part of what produces positive results in health - based interventions like the Nurse - Family Partnership, or read -
with - your -
kids programs, or even the Jamaican experiment, is that they involve home visitors urging parents to play and read and talk more
with their infants — to engage in more serve - and - return moments, in other words — and those up - close parental interactions may have the effect of promoting secure
attachment, even if
attachment was not the intended target of the intervention.
Fortunately, the plastic junk usually doesn't get crazy emotional
attachments so it's easy for the
kids to part
with when we do Value Village donation purges!
• Transform frustration and aggression into adaptation and cooperation • Keep your cool when your
kids push your buttons, talk back or refuse to «play nice» • Nourish deep
attachment with young and older
kids • Help your ADD» ish child survive and thrive, even if you're ADD» ish yourself • Inoculate your
kids from negative thinking and peer pressure that lead to anger, anxiety, depression, or behavior issues • Help children manage the emotional challenges of divorce
Attachment parenting, to me, doesn't mean meeting my
kids needs and treating them
with respect for X number of months / years and then starting to treat them like crap.
Unfortunately, there are many moms (and dads) who are raising
kids who are developing issues
with attachment, responsibility, and respect because their parents are not introspective.
In contrast, teachers were more controlling, had lower expectations, got angry more often, and showed less nurturing toward the children
with difficult
attachments — and who, sadly, had a greater need than the securely attached
kids for kindness from adults.
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Nighttime parenting is a subset of
attachment parenting that's closely related to co sleeping
with kids.
This approach to parenting has been shown to lead to the best outcomes in
kids, including better emotional health, social skills, more resiliency, and more secure
attachments with their parents.
Tomorrow, API Co-Founder and author of Attached at the Heart will be giving those of us
with younger
kids a peek into
attachment parenting and the teen years.
I think following their guidance gives
kids the chance to grow up
with healthy
attachments so they actually get to develop at their own pace.
Because a strong
attachment is so important throughout childhood, this is the first post in a three - part series of building great relationships
with our
kids.
Kids who might hide and hoard food include those
with eating disorders, Prader - Willi Syndrome, and reactive
attachment disorder.