

Often, our kids who have been adopted post infancy don’t know what to expect from moment to moment. They have a history of rejection and abuse, even if it was too early in their lives for them to recall the events, it’s all still embedded in their neural circuits, and their brains are on the alert for even the slightest signal that freeze, fight or flight needs to kick in. If we greet them, in each and every interaction, in a way that is positive and emotionally stable, they can learn to quickly move out of the three F’s (freeze, flight, or fight) and into a less emotionally labile mood and to an emotional state that allows for positive communication and even some fun.
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