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This weekend is Father’s Day; a special day for dear ‘ol Dad, with visions of Bar-B-Que, a lazy afternoon and warm weather days ahead. Special occasion days, no matter how soupy, are a cause for reflection and may be difficult for some. Having your teen away from home, is one of those life events that [...]
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This is a note I sent to another family that was struggling with not seeing their child during the holidays: I know the heartbreak you are currently feeling. Having your child in RT is one heartbreak after the other, but you have to believe there is light. When my son was at his first therapeutic boarding [...]
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I was going through some of my RSS feeds and came across this great posting on Struggling Teens by Glenda Gabriel. A parent with a graduate of residential treatment. She has written a great article “Expand Your Holidays” about what it is like to have a child in an RTC during this time. She is [...]
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Today we hauled the Christmas decorations out of the garage, time to put up the Tree and snow scene. With a child in residential treatment, Christmas is not the same, not to mention your family is split up. First, what do you get a kid that is in residential treatment? There are so many rules [...]
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For our family Thanksgiving will have many different meanings. I was told when we started this process that “our family” will never be the same and looking back, I now understand what that means. It was a year ago Thanksgiving, that we started down (and I mean down) this path and this is one time [...]
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