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Couple years ago our respite child 'Girlie', now 14, started to behave in ways that ended up her becoming our foster child. She is an oldest of bigger sibling group. Father is out of the picture, disapeared right after getting permanent residency, when Girlie was four years old and his three...

Great to hear from you Janet. Very happy Billy and Jamie are doing well, sorry to hear Corey is still struggling. Awesome news about the house! I think that last we spoke, my difficult child Ache was having bad time mental health vice. He was just starting to open up some trauma history he had. Since it...

Nice to "see you" Lil. Your retairment plans sound awesome. Also good to hear your son has been doing quite well. If they move nearby, make boundaries you are comfortable with and stick with those - unless you don't want to. Remember it's not your job to parent him anymore nor set his...

Nomad: I used to write here more few years back when things were bad with Ache, haven't visited in couple of years. Joy has always been a joy. One of those golden boys who seem to be blessed with all the great things from birth. Everything has always came easy for him. Ache is super talented...

So sorry to hear this. Sending strength to Janet.

Hi! I haven't been around for quite some time, but some of you may remember me and mine. I'm still liking my, not so new anymore, job and really enjoying challenging myself professionally and having kind of 'new life', that I live for me and not for my family. Husband has needed some...

Unfortunately we had to put our older dog to sleep this summer. He was old and became too sick to have a good enough quality of life anymore. Our young one is doing great and has finally overgrown her teens and is a stable, well-behaved doggie one can trust. It feels a bit have her as an only...

But Ache is actually doing really great. I haven't written in some time and things have changed with both my sons. Ache decided to call his sport career quits, or is officially having a gap year to get an insurance company to deem his retirement medical. But he has moved on and has started his...

People are really bad at evaluating if they are fit to drive. One sleepless night impairs one's driving ability same as 0,1 % BAC. One doesn't actually really notice that. Same goes when one is under influence of drugs. And many of those drugs people use to get intoxicated are, well, drugs. Same...

Joy was toilet trained just before modern pocket diapers came to market, so I was still using folded cloth and covers. But covers were already more modern type so no pins. When Joy was very little I used wool covers and later waterproof covers. At the time cloth diapers were still considered...

I used only cloth diapers with my younger one and about half and half with Ache. They were getting trendy at the time and are still very popular. Mostly environmental reasons but partly also because of worry for health risks when using disposable diapers (they keep kids genital area more warm...

You don't need a lie. You need to go with the basic truth that shuts her up. When she asks, you tell her it is related to medical condition (or just medical stuff) and you don't feel like talking about it, because having your hair done is a relaxing experience, not a time to talk about boring...

rTMS is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. In other words magnetism is used to stimulate small areas of the brains. Bit experimental method, not enough big randomized studies yet, but less side effects than electroshocks and seems to work well for some people with treatment resistant...

Hi, Copa and KTMom! Not wanting to hijack this thread I started a new one for catching up our latest. But nice to see you too!

I think it has been almost a year I last wrote here. I have checked every now and then, but never felt I had time to write. So some catching up. Life has been hectic for me. First we had our respite kids as fosters most of the last summer. Luckily their mom was able to get rid off of the...

I usually get up to 10 friend requests a month from handsome men around their 50s or 60s, who have also a picture of a kid on their profile and who are wearing American military uniform in their profile picture. Would I accept them, they would tell me that they are widowers and single parents. Many...

Yes, I know. And around here we consider those kids "risking their healthy physical, mental and emotional development" by their own actions. Around here kid under 15 is not legally liable for any criminal action they may commit and even after that they need to literally kill someone to end up in...

First thing worth mentioning is, that our child protection laws are different from USA. We don't have a concept of terminating parental rights. If a child needs to be taken into the care (either because of parents' actions or lack of, or because of child's own actions, in other words, kids who...

Or hopefully decision we do not need to make. But right now it is a possibility. It is about our respite kids. We have had them few days a month some years now. 11-year-old neurotypical girl with her own challenges and 8-year-old high functioning aspie boy. They and their siblings were taken...

When talking about addiction and connection, I honestly don't think parents or childhood family is what they are talking about. Of course, for some people things go wrong in their childhood family, but for many others, they lost that connection to life along the way. We shouldn't think we are...