Comments on: Must Read Book

By: shannon

shannon — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:34:05 +0000

Thanks much! Could you (in your copious free time) post two or three other favorites on toddler adoption? I would like to read up, just in case… (in case I can persuade Cole that we need another child).

By: ie

ie — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:26:54 +0000

Thank you for the recommendation.

I would also like to suggest http://www.emofree.com. This is a technique that is getting widespread use, with excellent results.

Anything to help our little ones (and our big ones, too), survive and lead a happy life, yes?

By: Peg

Peg — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:09:08 +0000

If you haven’t already, you might check out this link to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, as follows:

http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:00:18 +0000

I’m off to buy the book. Thanks for sharing.

By: lisa

lisa — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:31:05 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation. I have read a lot about childhood trauma, starting from my own experience-and, like you, I quickly decided that lbg is struggling more with trauma than attachment-but this is the first book that I have seen from the child’s perspective (other than Adopting the Hurt Child, which does deal with it-but I think more from an attachment perspective-or at least that was the way I read it several years ago).
For us, the biggest thing is that the anxiety and terrors seem to get worse the “happier” she is-which is classic trauma survivor. ~lmc