Wise parents learn quickly there are some control battles you never win. From the time children are born, there are some control battles parents will never win. For example, you can’t ever make a baby go to sleep. Or for that matter, you can’t ever make a baby eat when he doesn’t want to eat. [...]
One of the hardest lessons to learn in dealing with children who have been abused or who have experienced trauma is how hard it is for them to trust adults. Once the trust of a child has been violated by an adult, that child does not trust adults again easily. Even if a child has not been [...]
No junior high boy should have to be an emotional roller coaster, but one of my clients has been on a deluxe roller coaster ride the last several weeks. First his placement with a relative disrupted and he returned to a group home, then his birth mother told his two younger siblings they are coming [...]
Occasionally I have the privilege of working with some of my clients for several years. Currently there is a teenager who has been on my caseload for several years. When I first started seeing her in counseling, she had all ready experienced being removed from her biological mother due to her mother’s drug use and [...]
I have wanted to write about the need for parents and other adults to be “grownups” in the lives of children for some time, but have been hesitant to write these blogs for fear that I would seem angry or cynical, but after 16 years of working with abused and neglected children, I need to [...]
When I was but a wee little one in the first grade, my curiosity got the best of me. Have you noticed that childhood curiosity is not necessarily appreciated by adults? One day during our nap time, I began to unwrap my crayons. I noticed that the area under the radiator was very warm and [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email from an adoptive dad. He and his wife adopted two sisters a few years ago. The sisters had been part of a large sibling group that I counseled. All of the siblings had been neglected, some of them had been physically abused, and all of them had been [...]
I am spending New Year’s Day at my parents’ home. They still live in the same house I grew up in, so around every corner there is a childhood memory lying in wait. This morning I got up and stumbled into the bathroom. I found myself sitting on a bathroom toilet with a story to [...]
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