RADical Changes

Just when things seem set and steady, a new twist comes along.

We now have one RAD kid starting to heal and one making no progress at all. The first has minor setbacks but is impressing us with her progress despite, while we're looking for in-patient treatment for the older one upon the recommendation by his therapist. Not that we don't agree...we've thought it best for a while but the therapist just now met with everyone else in the family and it seems to have struck him that the child's behavior is a threat to everyone here and will destroy this family without further help.

We started both RAD children on the same rules and behavior expectations. Now one has more relaxed rules and is trusted with less supervision. That is nice and it's awesome to have hope. However, it's also quite interesting. We have three teens with different personalities that all have different emotional needs and styles of parenting. I never knew you could have more than two and still have opposites at all three angles! Then we have the youngest child doing better and having different rules. Then we have the next oldest up still needing the extremely strict rules with constant supervision.

I'm so glad God is real! Otherwise I feel as if we might have filled a swimming pool with coffee and xanax and jumped in by now. It definitely sounds more logical than the weird things and rules we have to live by with RAD kids in the house.