Sublime

She teaches her child how to get along with others, how to make good decisions, and how to manage time, meet responsibilities, and pursue goals.

And as most parents have found out, behavior management techniques do not work with these children: No amount of star-or-sticker charts or time-outs, and no threats of grounding or unplugged TVs and Nintendo sets, is going to make a whit of difference. These children are not moved by threats, explanations, or even bribes for very long.

Why did she have children?

She was mentally ill.

Profound fears of loss and separation, the difficulty in adequately modulating intense emotions of elation, irritability, and the aggressive and sadistic impulses, coupled with discrete deficits in visual-motor integration (in the area of attention and executive memory and in the capacity to decode social cues accurately), have placed significant o

the family is going to begin to withdraw so as not to stress the child or expose themselves to public attention and possible ridicule.

In Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children, authors Jean Illsley Clarke and Connie Dawson talk about healing one hole at a time. “There is no quick fix,” they write. “There is no magical, sudden way to borrow the needed skills and to reclaim our self-confidence and self-esteem. We must do it ourselves step by step; we must bui

A long deterioration that lasted four to ten weeks. Barbara became increasingly more critical, condemning, and short-tempered. She would deny her earlier apologetic remarks. Finally, there would be an angry explosion and the cycle would repeat anew.

she had noticed that the kids there were being diagnosed as having attention problems at a staggering rate—dramatically higher than in wealthier neighborhoods—and