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The difficult child
By Stanley Turecki and Lesley Tonner

 

 

 

Book description:
Expanded and completely revised, the classic and definitive work on parenting hard-to-raise children with new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders.

Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset even experienced parents and teachers. They often act defiant, stubborn, loud, aggressive, or hyperactive. They can also be clingy, shy, whiny, picky, and impossible at bedtime, mealtimes, and in public places. This landmark book has been completely revised to include the latest information on ADHD, medications, and a reassuring approach to all aspects of childhood behavioral disorders.

In this parenting classic, Dr. Stanley Turecki, one of the nation's most respected experts on children and discipline � and himself the father of a once difficult child � offers compassionate and practical advice to parents of hard-to-raise children. Based on his experience with thousands of families in the highly successful Difficult Children Program he developed for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, his step-by-step approach shows you how to:

  • Identify your child's temperament using a ten-point test to pinpoint specific difficulties
  • Manage common � often "uncontrollable" � conflict situations expertly and gently
  • Make discipline more effective and get better results with less punishment
  • Get support from schools, doctors, professionals, and support groups
  • Understand ADHD and other common diagnoses, and decide if medication is right for your child
  • Make the most of the tremendous potential and creativity that many "difficult" children have

Drawing on his experience with thousands of families in his highly successful Difficult Child Program, Dr. Turecki shows parents how to:

  • Identify their child's difficult temperament using a ten-point test to pinpoint specific difficulties
  • Manage typical conflict situations expertly and kindly
  • Make discipline more effective and get better results with less punishment
  • Get support from schools, doctors, and others
  • Understand ADHD and other common diagnoses, and decide whether medication is right for their child
  • Make the most of the child's creativity and potential.

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Transforming the difficult child
By Howard Glasser

Description:
This is an 80-minute audiocassette recording of a presentation made by Howard Glasser to an audience of parents and teachers in October 2000. It describes the basic concepts and techniques of The Nurtured Heart Approach that is covered in further detail in the book Transforming the Difficult Child. This approach has had extraordinary results in helping parents and teachers to quickly and surely shift challenging children to using their intensity in positive and beautiful ways...without medications in 97% of the instances applied. This CD contains the same material as the audiocassette and is designed for passing the approach along to significant adults who might not have the time or inclination to read the book.

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Transforming the difficult child: The nurtured heart approach
 By Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley

Book description:
Transforming the Difficult Child brings to life a new way of shifting intense children to a solid life of success. The Nurtured Heart Approach puts a refreshing spin on both parenting and teaching and reveals new techniques and strategies that create thoroughly positive behaviors.


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Helping sensitive and difficult children
by Steven Stritt

Book description:
At any given time one out of ten children will display the signs and symptoms of a childhood emotional disorder. Unfortunately, only a few of these children receive the treatment they need to get better. Helping Sensitive and Difficult Children provides the answers to questions that commonly arise about children's mental health issues.


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How to talk so kids will listen ... and listen so kids will talk
By Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Book description:
Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be more effective with your children � and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. Now, in this Twentieth Anniversary Edition, these award-winning experts share their latest insights and suggestions based upon feedback they've received over the years. Their methods of communication-illustrated with delightful cartoons showing the skills in action-offer innovative ways to solve common problems. You'll learn how to:

  • Cope with your child's negative feelings-frustration, disappointment, anger, etc.
  • Express your anger without being hurtful
  • Engage your child's willing cooperation
  • Set firm limits and still maintain goodwill
  • Use alternatives to punishment
  • Resolve family conflicts peacefully

 



A mind at a time
By Mel Levine


Book Description
"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all. Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, many children struggle because their learning patterns don't fit the way they are being taught.

In his #1 New York Times bestseller A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows parents and those who care for children how to identify these individual learning patterns, explaining how they can strengthen a child's abilities and either bypass or help overcome the child's weaknesses, producing positive results instead of repeated frustration and failure.

Consistent progress can result when we understand that not every child can do equally well in every type of learning and begin to pay more attention to individual learning patterns -- and individual minds � so that we can maximize children's success and gratification in life. In A Mind at a Time Dr. Levine shows us how.