Tales From Our House

I have been mulling this post around in my mind for months trying to find the words to explain my struggle without making my children lo...

This afternoon I came across this Ted Talk:  Drowning In Empathy: The Cost Of Vicarious Trauma  and a light bulb went on in my brain. S...

    Does anyone else struggle with the intensity of parenting your child with FASD? Maybe it is a personal problem of mine, because I ca...

#1. Silence makes you uneasy. You don't think, "Oh good, she is finally happy so I will take a few minutes to read my book,"...

Recently  Oregon Behavior Consultation  asked parents with special needs children to share the advice people have given them regarding ...

The first months and years of a child's life are critical for building the foundations on which they which they will construct relat...

If you are a trauma parent, chances are you have been called out for inconsistent parenting. When this happens, I get tongue tied and onl...

When you have a child with trauma, especially complex trauma, you need to be the stable, unshakable adult. When your child is sad he ne...

Back when I knew how to parent I had this idea of what makes a good parent. These are some of the ideals I had... My children would pick ...

Is it really true that parenting children with early childhood trauma is harder than "traditional parenting," or are parents just...

One of the hardest things I have had to come to grips with in this journey of trauma parenting is being to one who causes the most ...

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to speak with an adoptive parent about some of the things the children who come into our home...

Joseph and I are having a tough day partly because I haven't figured out where he is cognitively. Like many afflicted with FASD, Jos...

Did you know my last post on  Felt Safety  applies to parents as well as their traumatized children? Yesterday proved that I rely on fe...

This week has been been rough, really rough. There were several things that played into it, I am coming out of several weeks of  a na...