Learning Disabilities cause emotional struggles as well as academic struggles

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	• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible ... Ross W. Greene Harper Paperbacks, 2005 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 157 reviews view larger image
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RE: Parents looking to rationalize their neglect to set limi

First off I recommend this book if only because the author did a unique thing no other book could, he got me inside MY kid's head. With understanding comes the right path to a solution.

The "mom n teacher", a public school teacher I bet, who wrote the January 12 review has a good point about consequences of actions. However her approach is disastrous. This attitude displays a lack of knowledge or even consideration about the mental process of the child. Apparently only physical handicaps are legitimate in her view. It's pretty obvious she has never had experience with such a child, except perhaps in the school setting, whose limited, short term exposure shields her from seeing the damage done to the child. I doubt she has a child of her own like this, she's too "Ivory Tower" in her thinking. But if she does, God help that child. As a father of such a child, and with a military background, I can tell you that the 'traditional' law and order and discipline approach only exacerbates the situation. Keep doing this to the child long enough, and they WILL end up in juvie or jail.

I have just started this book, and I hope the author explores methods of communicating consequences. If not, I'll be PRO-ACTIVE and come up with my own supplemental solution (gasp, improvise and think?) or continue seeking resources to help with this facet of the issue.

Parents of such kids know the differences, having to put up with twits like this daily. They know whether or not the heavy handed approach is the best answer.

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Learning Disabilities cause emotional struggles as well as academic struggles

This book was wonderful for my family. My son has struggled with behavior issues since he was a preschooler. As concerned parents we reached out to many avenues for help. This book helped put into perspective that some young children do not automatically learn coping skills and that it is not a matter that they cannot learn but that they need to be specifically taught. And as explained in the book, it is also not likely that they will learn it the first time explained or taught but that you will have to reinforce and repeat often until the skill becomes automatic.

Some kids learn to read naturally by themselves, some kids learn to read with minimal assistance frm teachers/parents, and then there are some kids who learn to read only after extensive remedial efforts by teachers/parents. A learning disability. And so some kids learn to calm themselves naturally by themselves. Some kids learn to calm themselves with minimal assistance frm teachers/parents - a time out now and then gets the message across. And then there some kids who will only learn after extensive help from teachers/parents.

I think that once you see the problem as a matter of a learning disability instead of willful disrespect... then parents and teachers can "teach" the life skills that are missing.

This approach worked for our family. I must say however that the basket approach has been a tough sell at school. Even with an I.E.P. it has been difficult. Most of the adults at school have been thankful to have involved parents who are actively trying to work with the school to follow stratigies that are working in the home to work in the school. But just like some of the reviewers here, there are some adults who just don't understand. Thank you Ross W. Greene for your insightful and very useful approach for those of us with explosive children.

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Not easy to use on a young child with behavior problems.

Dr. Greene offers wonderful information that could probably enable you and your child to modify their behavior problems. This book is not easy to implement on a 3 year old with ADHD. I encountered difficulty in being the facilitator for my childs behavior. I had to recognize the "vapor lock", try to reduce her anger to refrain from the "meltdown". It was way too much work for me, the parent, to maintain while trying to discipline my child. I turned to other parenting books for easier approaches to reduce my ADHD childs aggressive behavior. Those worked much better without creating additional stress for me.

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Parenting a difficult child

This book accomplishes two goals: 1) helping parents recognize that the behavior they find so difficult and frustrating in their child has an organic basis and is not willful rebellion, 2)If they are willing to change how they respond (ie their parenting style) to this child things can get better.

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