The Essential Guide To Raising Complex Kids With Adhd, Anxiety, And More: What Parents And Teachers Really Need To Know To Empower Complicated Kids With Confidence And Calm

The Essential Guide To Raising Complex Kids With Adhd, Anxiety, And More: What Parents And Teachers Really Need To Know To Empower Complicated Kids With Confidence And Calm

The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids teaches parents and professionals?ow to be an effective parent when raising children with ADHD, anxiety, and other complex conditions-and how to guide kids on a path to a healthy, happy, well-adjusted life. A wake-up call, a clear guide for action, and a message of inspiration, this book provides a reality-based recipe forhow to do a masterful job of raising complex kids, while not making yourself (or your family) crazy in the process. Parenting expert Elaine Taylor-Klaus, co-founder and CEO of ImpactADHD.com, will walk you through their?roven coach-approach method, which shows all parents, in simple steps, how to identify challenge areas and how to usecritical?ools to parent simply, clearly, and effectively-for everyone?s benefit.?t doesn?t much matter if your child has ADHD, or anxiety, or learning disabilities, or sensory processing, or ODD, or autism, or depression, or attachment issues-or?eliac disease or food allergies, for that matter. All that really matters is this: complex kids struggle with some aspects of life and learning because they have? chronic medical condition (or several) that?hey need to learn to manage for themselves. A coach approach will help youcommunicate, collaborate, and guide kids of all ages on their path to independence and success. Here are some of the challenge areas addressed inside, and the coach-approach messages and strategies for working through them.?hallenge: Feeling Like You've Tried Everything -->?oach-Approach: Letting Go?->?trategy: Lean into RelationshipsChallenge: Fearing for the Future -->?oach-Approach: Parent from Inspiration, Not Desperation?->?trategy: Shed the ShouldsChallenge: An Unhappy Home -->?oach-Approach: No One Gets to Be Wrong-The Benefits of Positivity?->?trategy: Play to their StrengthsChallenge: Overwhelm Is Keeping You Stuck -->?oach-Approach: Focus?n What's Most Important?->?trategy: Take Aim!Once you learn to use the Impact Model with a coach-approach,?t can be applied to any situation. in fact, the more you use it, the easier it all becomes. Constant battles don?t have to be part of your daily life. With?he Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and More, you can (all) learn to rediscover peace... and?hrive.Review"An invaluable resource for parents (and hopefully for those working with them), this book is certainly now on the top of my ?must read? list for all the parents (and teachers and mental health specialists) I work with. I am recommending it every chance I get." - Jerome Schultz, Ph.D. Clinical Neuropsychologist, Harvard Medical School Author: Nowhere to HideYou?ll want to read this book cover to cover, and then keep it on your nightstand, for it will surely become your ?how to? manual as you shift from ?parenting from desperation to parenting from inspiration. - Jerome Schultz, Ph.D., author of Nowhere to HideWith wit and wisdom that can only come from experience, Elaine Taylor-Klaus reminds fellow parents that they really can make a difference in the lives of their complex kids. - Susan Stiffelman, MFT, author of Parenting Without Power StrugglesThis smart, practical book will make a difference not only in your child?s life, but also in yours. If you?re tired of working too hard for too little, let Elaine show you a better path. - Ari Tuckman, author of More Attention, Less DeficitThis is truly the book so many parents have been waiting for and is sure to help many families. They will find the compassionate guidance they need to?ove from surviving to thriving by learning how to make simple but impactful adjustments in the way they care for themselves and their?omplex kids. - Michelle Frank, Psy.D., co-author of A Radical Guide for Women with ADHDThis book is smart, engaging, and written for busy (and sometimes chaotic) families.?It teaches parents to use reflection and self-car