The Explosive Child:
A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, 'Chronically Inflexible' Children

by Ross W. Greene

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ADD & Special Kids Support Group
Now there is a new way for you, your child, and your entire family to find help. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Ross Greene, a child psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, makes a compassionate argument that the difficulties of these children stem from developmental deficits in two critical skills: flexibility and frustration tolerance. He asserts that if such children could do well, they would.

If My Kid's So Nice... Why's He Driving Me Crazy?:
Straight Talk About the 'Good Kid' Disorder
by Dr. James D. Sutton

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Chap 7: The "Quick Fix"
From the author, James D. Sutton, "A book about kids who seldom hurt anyone, but annoy everyone  As a classroom teacher who later became a child and adolescent psychologist, I was both intrigued and annoyed by those youngsters who made noncompliance their "speciality." These kids were oppositional and defiant long before we had a category to put them in. In many ways they were good kids; they didn't hurt anyone, but they annoyed everyone! Although "If My Kid's So Nice ... Why's He Driving ME Crazy?" discusses Oppositional Defiant Disorder, my main objective in writing this book was to address the behaviors of those youngsters who might not be ODD yet, and what we can do with and for them. We have many youngsters who will probably never be formally diagnosed as ODD, but their behaviors are a problem, just the same. One rather unique focus of this book is the chapter on compliance at school; it's by far the largest of the 17 chapters. "

Raising Your Spirited Child : A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Review by: Sue Spataro suespa@caro.net

Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook
by Mary Sheedy Kurcinko, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Why Your Child Is Hyperactive
by Ben F. Feingold, MD

Meet the author - Judith Allee
as she discusses ADD
Parents often look into homeschooling because their kids don't quite "fit" at school. About 2 to 3% of kids have ADD, according to estimates we've read....However, about half of the parents who contact us to explore homeschooling have a child diagnosed with either ADD, a learning disability, or both. That's a m-u-c-h larger proportion than we expected!....(see more)

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