Description
The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids is a wake-up call, a clear path for action, and a message of inspiration, providing a reality-based recipe for raising complex kids, while not making yourself (or your family) crazy in the process.
Parenting expert Elaine Taylor-Klaus of ImpactADHD.com walks you through a proven coach-approach method that provides essential tools for clearly setting effective and realistic expectations for your kids to eliminate daily battles and constant upheaval.
It doesn’t matter if your child has ADHD, anxiety, learning disabilities, autism, depression, ODD, or attachment issues—complex kids struggle with some aspects of life and learning, and they need your understanding and support. A coach-approach will help you communicate, collaborate, and guide kids of all ages on a path to independence and success.
Here are some of the challenges, coach-approach messages, and strategies you will learn:
Challenge: “This Kid Is Really Smart, but . . .”
Coach’s Reframe: Parent from Inspiration –> Strategy: Shed the Shoulds
Challenge: “I’ve Tried Everything, but Nothing Works”
Coach’s Reframe: Start with You –> Strategy: Relationships over Tasks
Challenge: “My Kid’s Just Not Motivated”
Coach’s Reframe: Executive Function –> Strategy: Use Motivation
Challenge: “Where Do I Start?”
Coach’s Reframe: Take a Marathon View –> Strategy: Take Aim
With The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and More, your family can rediscover peace…and thrive.
This is a Non-Fiction book. I do not normally read non-fiction books. I found some good information in this book. I really liked reading it. I received an ARC of this book. This review is my own honest opinion about the book like all my reviews are.
I have several books about parenting etc
This is by far the best .
I am a retired teacher and would have so appreciated this book before I set out in the classroom. I would have liked to read it before having kids of my own as well. There are so many practical ideas in here on dealing with challenging children, and frankly all children that I think every parent could benefit by reading this. The chapters are very well laid out and the ideas are explained in a very readable style.
This was easy to read and seemed very thorough and complete, useful to consider and easy to learn from.
This book could only be written by someone who has LIVED it and experienced all the complex frustrations and emotions that exist in the families of those with ADHD and the related diagnoses. It is certainly an evolutionary process from the diagnosis to the acceptance of what all it means and how parents must evolve if they are going to effectively parent the child. You have to throw out all the paradigms you lived by before having kids of how you thought it would be and evolve into the reality of the changes you’ll be required to make as a parent and even as a person. It is a years and years long process. This book articulates everything so well. Parents of kids with ADHD need support and wisdom in spades to not destroy their kids sense of who they are. This book provides that in spades! It takes a while for parents to realize they are going to have to change if the household is going to run smoother. The ADHD kid will not change – even CANNOT change – until the parent gets some help and changes first. If you live in house with an ADHD child – even if they are an older teenager or young adult – you need this book!!!