tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post686491614307029481..comments2009-03-02T21:35:32.331-06:00Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07276000726366302069noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-31089549513129947542009-03-02T21:35:00.000-06:002009-03-02T21:35:00.000-06:00Oh, Amanda ...<BR/><BR/>you so can't afford me.<BR/><BR/>;)Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07276000726366302069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-44605485915501014592009-03-02T21:03:00.000-06:002009-03-02T21:03:00.000-06:00I mean WHO ARE YOU??? Can I just put you in my arsenal?Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900990551382691170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-34531481758683566662009-02-27T20:23:00.000-06:002009-02-27T20:23:00.000-06:00I just came over here after reading Lisa's blog. I'm going to learn a lot from you! You sound like an awesome mom!Linda B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03978492301293470296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-55050225961205356812009-02-27T12:24:00.000-06:002009-02-27T12:24:00.000-06:00I just found your blog, and love it! My kids have been home 4 months and exhibits lots of these behaviors. I'm buying some skittles today - LOVED the idea for the tantrums and I think it will be very effective!MelDownardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211987362994405011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-21985380918417115542009-02-27T10:34:00.000-06:002009-02-27T10:34:00.000-06:00EXCELLENT post!Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811548306583601019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-71372437099131575102009-02-27T08:09:00.000-06:002009-02-27T08:09:00.000-06:00just found your blog. THANK YOU!!Dinahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473448768301577048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-20187878099873575822009-02-27T02:12:00.000-06:002009-02-27T02:12:00.000-06:00aha! see i thought i was brilliant and told the husband i was going to reread every rad book out there and write one that combines them all and actually WORKS! <BR/>then i felt silly as i realized that the next mom would come along and my dumb book would just be in her list of books to read to combine... :)Unspeakable Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01665163940880648285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-83487004579974724292009-02-26T20:15:00.000-06:002009-02-26T20:15:00.000-06:00I love it!! I love what an awesome mom you are. I love what an awesome young lady Mar Mar is. Those little bits of hope that can help you get to the end of just one more day. Which in turn gets Mar Mar to the end of that day...another day where her momma didnt' leave her. Where she didn't leave her momma. I love it!!<BR/><BR/>now...I had an idea this afternoon while I was wasting time in the mall. (I was thinking of you, Mar Mar, and the little girl (5) that we do respite for) when I walked past a particular store. I don't think my thoughts would work for the gal we do respite for (she isn't cognitively 5 and wouldn't get it). But it just might for your lil' raddish.<BR/><BR/>:) So..email when you can gardiner 94 @ aim dot comStory of our Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01617622682686871400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-545350387182176972009-02-26T19:56:00.000-06:002009-02-26T19:56:00.000-06:00This -- "See, I've been having words with God lately. Wondering where exactly He sat down my heart. Ticked off that He would cry along with us instead of just fixing my daughter."<BR/><BR/>really resonated with me -- I have these thoughts all the time, about myself. I think someday we'll know the answers. Until then, we just have to carry on, doing the best we can. <BR/><BR/>It sounds like you're doing good work, mama.Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17136475934858797611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-9241511316591713172009-02-26T16:52:00.000-06:002009-02-26T16:52:00.000-06:00Amen and amen and amen!!!!! You took the words right out of my mouth. I had this very same discussion with a friend of mine yesterday. All the RAD groups (ATTACh, etc.) all want to be on the band wagon that one person has is it right. NONE of them have it all right. RAD parents need the arsenal. You can take any approach and make it coercive and punitive. It&#39;s all in the delivery.<BR/><BR/>Your Q &amp; A rocked the house and I&#39;m totally stealing it. With love of course...;-)Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16146320008307628429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-17026738102464223012009-02-26T16:01:00.000-06:002009-02-26T16:01:00.000-06:00As far as I am concerned you can feel free to write long posts everyday...<BR/>I am not in your situation, yet, but I can relate to much of what you wrote on a very different level. Thank you for your authenticity and your transparency.Jenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13883975580159419000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-40314845916123191292009-02-26T15:30:00.000-06:002009-02-26T15:30:00.000-06:00Thank you, Lord for those little nuggets of inspiration that get us through and THROUGH! Thank you for Mar Mar and that she has a mom who loves her with your love. Keep breaking through, Lord.Hannah_Raehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02456126190061240236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-32019355093159891682009-02-26T14:13:00.000-06:002009-02-26T14:13:00.000-06:00I'm stealing the pop quiz idea. Awesome. At random times in our week I ask my daughter: when am I going to leave you? She says never..and then I have her yell it louder and louder and louder. Hearing that seems to really help her.TracyChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12026888986503543187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-27811728933171504582009-02-26T12:40:00.000-06:002009-02-26T12:40:00.000-06:00I listened to "all I can say" for an entire year and "he is the Love". Now I'm on a "grace in the wilderness" (Eoghan Heaslip) mostly, because parenting a RADkid can be utterly wilderness. And it give me hope that Jesus can be found smack dab in the middle of the sand and searing sun of the desert.<BR/> And I'm not in anyone's camp. All you mentioned and more have been so helpful to me in their own ways.truevynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05998290681038658399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-49400211050409222342009-02-26T12:39:00.000-06:002009-02-26T12:39:00.000-06:00Yes there is so much HOPE!<BR/><BR/>. . . But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Ro 8:24b-25 . . . even more beautiful in context.C and Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09016028981337744382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11570547.post-79721532210199539112009-02-26T11:17:00.000-06:002009-02-26T11:17:00.000-06:00That was so not that long, and so so helpful. Thank you so much for sharing this - and all of your other posts. Really, thank you.<BR/><BR/>You are a phenomenal mom and I'm so glad to have found this, at least, so I can learn a little tiny bit from you.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16829703881631656220noreply@blogger.com