What do you do when you need to balance the mental illness of one child against the wellness of a whole family? Do you allow the mentally ill and potentially very violent child to return home? Or do you push for another residential placement?
Tag: ADHD
the adjustment period
It is always an adjustment to life when the structure of the home environment changes. It has been a couple of weeks since he has been home, and I still find myself getting up at all hours to check on him. Unable to sleep at night, I find that even when I force myself to…
Mr School Van Driver
Good morning my friends. Hope this note finds you well. Yesterday was an excellent day. This morning, David was in full on mode. Jumping from topic to topic so quickly that we couldn’t keep up. In the course of 30 minutes, I bet he talked about 50 different things. When he is like this there…