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• Christmas with a R.A.D. Child

  Tis the Season for PTSD, triggers and other mixed-up emotions. Did I just describe your Christmas season? This has been my life for many years. When I was a kid, I loved everything to do with Christmas. My family just consisted of my mother, dad and my sister. We moved from Nebraska to Utah when […]

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  December 14, 2021

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• Non-Traditional Adoptive Parents – Section 1

  Years ago, I watched a PBS program about new books and the authors. I can still remember that day so vividly. The weather was cloudy and I was bored with the basketball games running on the regular TV stations. It was a Saturday in the middle of January. The author of the book They Came […]

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  September 13, 2021

  Adoption, Black adoptive parents, Children Adoptions, Foster Care, international adoptions, Legal issues adoption, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder Courses, social work issues, Uncategorized

• What Is R.A.D.?

  Some of my followers wanted to know what RAD really was and why I’ve spent so much time writing about it. I decided to do a blog and answer their questions. Even though RAD has become the common description of the multiple behaviors damaged children have, a better way to describe it as Developmental Trauma […]

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  August 3, 2021

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• Are You an Angry Parent of a RAD Child?

  I know I am! How about you, my readers? What is really causing your anger? Is it your child or is it the fact that when you ask for help the power-people tell you “You just need to LOVE them more?” When I hear that statement, I always wonder if these nincompoops have ever had […]

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  June 23, 2021

  Adoption, Children Adoptions, international adoptions, Reactive Attachment Disorder, social work issues, Uncategorized

• CAN YOU GET PTSD FROM YOUR ADOPTED CHILDREN?

  Isn’t that a dumb question? Has it happened to you? Cause it’s happened to me. I can honestly say no one would ever diagnose me with PTSD and that is a problem. Why do I think this? For one thing my best friend of over 35 years was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at the […]

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  March 13, 2021

  Adoption, Children Adoptions, international adoptions, Reactive Attachment Disorder, social work issues, Uncategorized

• Evolution of Christmas Traditions in My Life

  For first time visitors to this blog, my name is Ann Lamphere, this is my story. I’m the adoptive parent of Kara Kay Lamphere Sansing.  I’m also an adoption social worker and have been the director of an adoption agency. Christmas Break Today, I’m taking a break from My Adoption Story.  It is 6 days until […]

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  December 19, 2020

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