Comments on: Three Months with L http://american-family.org/2007/05/28/three-months-with-l/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:51:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: American Family » two steps forward, one step back http://american-family.org/2007/05/28/three-months-with-l/comment-page-1/#comment-83152 American Family » two steps forward, one step back Wed, 28 May 2008 03:43:46 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/05/28/three-months-with-l/#comment-83152 [...] If I were reading this description on someone else’s blog, I would be thinking “attachment issues! attachment issues!”  I think that is probaby a fair assumption.  We have been dealing with L’s attachment and trauma issues since she first came into our family.  This isn’t even the first time that a change in the family routine or someone traveling led to acting out.  It just caught me off guard because L seems so much like a “normal” kid (i.e. kid who hasn’t been traumatized) so much of the time, I forget that sometimes she will react more intensely. [...] [...] If I were reading this description on someone else’s blog, I would be thinking “attachment issues! attachment issues!”  I think that is probaby a fair assumption.  We have been dealing with L’s attachment and trauma issues since she first came into our family.  This isn’t even the first time that a change in the family routine or someone traveling led to acting out.  It just caught me off guard because L seems so much like a “normal” kid (i.e. kid who hasn’t been traumatized) so much of the time, I forget that sometimes she will react more intensely. [...]

]]> By: American Family » This is Hard http://american-family.org/2007/05/28/three-months-with-l/comment-page-1/#comment-56353 American Family » This is Hard Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:25:39 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/05/28/three-months-with-l/#comment-56353 [...] When we met L, I was pretty sure that her behavior indicated she was at high-risk for attachment issues*.   Her initial anxious attachment to me and rejection of Mr. A seemed like trauma response from being yanked away from her only home and people who had cared for her for so long.  I also suspect she was anxiously attached to someone or several people before we met her.  (You can read a little description of her attachment difficulties once we got home here). [...] [...] When we met L, I was pretty sure that her behavior indicated she was at high-risk for attachment issues*.   Her initial anxious attachment to me and rejection of Mr. A seemed like trauma response from being yanked away from her only home and people who had cared for her for so long.  I also suspect she was anxiously attached to someone or several people before we met her.  (You can read a little description of her attachment difficulties once we got home here). [...]

]]> By: katie http://american-family.org/2007/05/28/three-months-with-l/comment-page-1/#comment-45401 katie Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:19:00 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/05/28/three-months-with-l/#comment-45401 Even children who've never been exposed to a tone language start out with the hypothesis that tone in words matters*. They will say things like ALL-gone with ALL on a high note, and never change the way they say it. After a while they realise that people around them use the same word with different tones, and they also become a bit more accepting of slightly different pronunciations of words. *I'm not a parent, but I do this stuff for a living. Even children who’ve never been exposed to a tone language start out with the hypothesis that tone in words matters*. They will say things like ALL-gone with ALL on a high note, and never change the way they say it. After a while they realise that people around them use the same word with different tones, and they also become a bit more accepting of slightly different pronunciations of words.

*I’m not a parent, but I do this stuff for a living.

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