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But, He Spit in My Coffee
- A Reads-Like-Fiction Memoir About Adopting a Child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
- Narrated by: Cindy Piller
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
A desperate mother must grapple with impossible choices as her young son becomes too dangerous to live at home, but is only growing bigger, stronger, and more violent while in treatment. When Keri and her husband adopt Devon, he has concerning behaviors, but she's confident all he needs is the love of a forever family.
Devon's hidden history of early childhood trauma quickly takes center stage when Devon throws screaming fits, yanks his bedroom door off its hinges, chases his classmates with a knife, and pushes his younger brother down the stairs and viciously karate-chops him in the throat.
When Devon is admitted to a psychiatric residential treatment facility at age 10 and is diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), Keri is faced with an impossible choice -- Devon is too dangerous to live at home, but he's not getting better in treatment. Keri must race against time to find help for Devon and keep her other children safe, as he grows bigger, stronger, and more violent.
Based on a shocking true story, this reads-like-a-novel memoir exposes the dysfunctions of the child welfare and mental health systems and how they fail kids with RAD and their families.
- 2022 IndieReader Discovery Award Winner
- 16th National Indie Excellence Award Winner
- 11th Annual Kindle Book Award Winner
- 2022 Wishing Shelf Award Finalist
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- Bospri
- 14-02-23
Thank you for validating my life
I am an adoptive mum of two wonderful children, who struggle in many different ways. I have never heard about RAD nor been told of its existence by anyone involved in our support network.
This book describes our life and life of other adopters to the dot. We have been dismissed by everyone and still nobody believes our claims about what kind of life we lead since our children been placed in their forever family.
In UK there is massive secrecy when it comes to adoption as well as gaslighting adoptive parents into believing that if they attend one more parental course, things will change and everything will become normal.
I honestly don't know how to thank the author, for her honesty and bravery. I believe you were the best version of the mother you could have been taking in the circumstances and the lack of information you have been provided with.
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