RadKid.Org Blog

Every now and then, and sometimes quite often, we receive emails from people seeking help or information and, less often, from those who are offering assistance and information. Both are welcomed, although we haven’t been as faithful about responding to these requests and comments as often as we should. For this, I apologize. I wish I could promise to do better in the future. Unfortunately, life gets in the way all too often.

While I may add additional thoughts here as they come to me, my primary purpose for establishing this blog is to provide a place where I can respond to some of these requests publically, so as to benefit others who may have similar questions, and to allow those who may be much smarter or more experienced than myself to correct me whenever I err, as I will.

In all cases, other than those involving professionals or others who clearly want to be identified, I will omit any identifying characteristics from published emails, including changing names, locations, and other information that might be used to identify the writers.’

Whenever possible, I will continue to reply privately to those requests for which I believe I have an answer, as time and circumstances permit, and sometimes my private responses will differ from those given here, because the purposes are not the same.

I’ll begin by publishing some of the emails that I have saved, interspersing them with any new ones that might arrive.

Please feel free to reply to any entries here. Although I consider myself to be well-read, and have experience parenting a child with reactive attachment disorder, do not give greater credence to my comments than they deserve. I am not a mental health professional and, in all probability, I am not familiar with your child. If I should say anything that differs from recommendations made by a mental health professional who has seen your child, you will be served well by giving the benefit of the doubt to those who know more about this than I do.

For what it’s worth, let’s continue.

– Ken