Tag: Policy

• Don’t Mind The Man Behind The Curtain

  Though it’s taken me years to learn, I’ve finally figured out that one of the the most vital parts of my kids’ history and their issues is shame. When I really sit and analyze why they have the unhealthy behaviors they have, it always come back to the shame they feel from their early lives.…

  cadamy

  July 13, 2014

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  advocacy, Foster Care, Foster Child, Foster Parent, Policy, Privacy, Shame

• As Good As It Gets

  Usually when I write, I try to come up with some kind of lesson, something I’m supposed to learn, some bigger picture reason for why things happen the way they happen. Today, though, I’m just amazingly angry. I just left T, my 10-year-old, at inpatient psychiatric care for the second time since November. It’s her…

  cadamy

  January 20, 2013

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  Adoption, Foster Child, Foster Parent, Mental Health, Oklahoma, Policy, Reactive Attachment Disorder