This is a guest blog from J- (aka Dad)

Here is an all-too-typical day:
 
6:00 – 6:20: Lie in bed petting dog and snoozing after the alarm goes off.
6:20 – 7:00: Make coffee, check email for emergencies (ignore), do some leftover evening dishes, and let the dogs out.
7:00-7:15: Wake T-7 and T-4, lay out their [...]

There are a wide-range of attachment-related problems, some that have diagnoses like Radical Attachment Disorder and Attachment Disorganization. Related may be other behavioral problems like Oppositional defiant disorder (which is T-7 current diagnosis).
We have been researching general parenting techniques for many months trying to figure out how to handle our troubled kids.  It took us [...]

I have begun having a huge problem with insomnia.  My tossing and turning (even with some aids!) is definitely anxiety-ridden.  These nights are always triggered by either an unusual commitment the next day or times that I am having the most serious doubts about the girls.
We are back in a bad spell.  We had a [...]