The Child Whisperer - Mary Rose Anderson
An excerpt from A Book of Miracles:
Inspiring True Stories of Healing, Gratitude, and Love
The Child Whisperer
by Mary Rose Anderson
The message about a stray cat was on my machine when we came home from our daughter’s open-heart surgery. A thirty-something single mother, I was focused on the success of the surgery and didn’t think much of it. “Now everything will go much better for us” was the thought replaying in my head. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Getting my eleven-year-old’s heart fixed was the easy part.
Frances had always been a high-maintenance child with behavior problems, mood disorders, and learning disabilities in addition to the congenital heart defect. As I look back to this time in my life, I see a stream of experts helping me care for her. One of those “experts” was exceptional, though not certified, nor — with four legs and a tail — even “credible” to some.
When I had taken Frances to the cognitive and academic specialists for testing, I received a twelve-page report with a devastating seven lines devoted to her multiple diagnoses. The ODD, oppositional defiant ...
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Inspiring True Stories of Healing, Gratitude, and Love
The Child Whisperer
by Mary Rose Anderson
The message about a stray cat was on my machine when we came home from our daughter’s open-heart surgery. A thirty-something single mother, I was focused on the success of the surgery and didn’t think much of it. “Now everything will go much better for us” was the thought replaying in my head. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Getting my eleven-year-old’s heart fixed was the easy part.
Frances had always been a high-maintenance child with behavior problems, mood disorders, and learning disabilities in addition to the congenital heart defect. As I look back to this time in my life, I see a stream of experts helping me care for her. One of those “experts” was exceptional, though not certified, nor — with four legs and a tail — even “credible” to some.
When I had taken Frances to the cognitive and academic specialists for testing, I received a twelve-page report with a devastating seven lines devoted to her multiple diagnoses. The ODD, oppositional defiant ...
http://kajama.com/child-whisperer/