I can elaborate on this if anyone is interested the broken clock analogy I make in this thread is flawed, bc unlike a broken clock, both children and donald trump are agents you have to learn how to *attend* to what they're doing without *reacting*https://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1250852771760230400 …
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I think reflectively that's how a lot of foster parents feel but in the middle of a crisis and particularly with reactive-attachment kids a lot of parents get sucked into this kind of mutually antagonistic frame
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there is a particularly nasty philosophy around parenting kids with RAD that takes the "enemy" stance as kind of implicit and advises parents to *induce total dependence* on the kids this is why I Hate Nancy Thomas

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