The Explosive Child
A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Editorial Review
Dealing more effectively with explosive children requires, first and foremost, an understanding of why these children behave as they do. Once this understanding is achieved, strategies for helping things improve often become self-evident. In some instances, achieving a more accurate understanding of a child’s difficulties can, by itself, lead to improvements in adult-child interactions, even before any formal strategies are tried.
Book Reviews
Books on Related Topics
Is your child chronically late turning in papers? Does she show up for soccer practice without her soccer bag? Say things without thinking? Read something and forget what he read? Wait until the last minute and then get caught short of time to complete tasks? Written by two clinical psychologists, Late,
The Text brings together knowledge from neuroscience psychology, psychiatry, child development, special education, early Care and education, cross culture research, and proactive social skills programs and organizes it into a single comprehensive (and comprehensible) whole. The research–based strategies can be used separately or together, providing you with the collection of tools
How children think is one of the most enduring mysteries—and difficulties—of parenthood. The marketplace is full of gadgets and tools that claim to make your child smarter, happier, or learn languages faster, all built on the premise that manufacturers know something about your child's brain that you don't. These products are
Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be effective with your children. 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. Recently revised and
Life today can be complex, distracting, fast moving, 24-7, and stressful. It is also joyful and full of exciting possibilities. We know that if it is this way for us, it is only going to be more so for our children. We all want the best for our children, but how
There's nothing more frustrating than watching your bright, talented son or daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. Your smart but scattered 4- to 13-year-old might also have trouble coping with disappointment or managing anger. Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have
Wisdom to Share
Dealing more effectively with explosive children requires, first and foremost, an understanding of why these children behave as they do.
Achieving a more accurate understanding of a child’s difficulties can, by itself, lead to improvements in adult-child interactions, even before any formal strategies are tried.
It goes without saying that different kids develop their skills at vastly different paces. And development is often uneven within the same child.
Just as some kids lag in acquiring certain academic or athletic skills, othersــــthe explosive ones ــــlag in some other very crucial skill areas: Flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem solving.
The explosive children do not choose to explode any more than a child would choose to have a reading disability. These kids lack crucial skills required for handling life’s challenges.
Make a list of your kid’s lagging skills and unsolved problems. The lagging skills help you understand why your kid is explosive. The unsolved problems help you understand with whom, over what, where, and when your kid explodes.
Once you figure out what skills your kid is lacking and identify the unsolved problems that are precipitating explosions, the explosions become highly predictable.
Lots of folks believe that explosions are unpredictable and occur “out of the blue.” That’s why they wait until a problem shows up (again) before they try to deal with it. That’s seldom an effective or reliable strategy.
Explosions occur when the demands and expectations being placed on a kid exceed his capacity to respond adaptively.
We couldn't find public videos for this title. Please check back later.
