Survival Strategies for Parenting Your Add Child: Dealing With Obsessions, Compulsions, Depression, Explosive Behavior, and Rage: Amazon.ca: Lynn: Books

Product Description

Book Description

A handbook of essential stress management skills for families with ADD children, from the publisher of Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception. These 40 powerful stress management techniques for both parents and children help manage the most problematic behaviors of ADD children, including rage, self-righteousness, oppositionality, obsessions, and depression. Writing from his experience as both a parent and a counselor, he provides parents with methods which can heal the fractures and pain that occur in families with these problems. He believes these "troubled" children are invariably gifted in unusual ways. 10 charts. Line drawings.

From the Publisher

This unique book addresses, and helps parents find solutions to, the more severe aspects of ADD - something no one else has done.

See all Product Description

Tag this product

(What's this?)

Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.

Customer Reviews

9 Reviews

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

4.7 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most helpful customer reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book is a True Blessing!!, April 2 2002

By

M. Steiner "Mikki" (Tonawanda, NY United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)

This review is from: Survival Strategies for Parenting Your Add Child: Dealing With Obsessions, Compulsions, Depression, Explosive Behavior, and Rage (Paperback)

I am a single mom , and both my sons have been diagnosed with ADHD. This book is truly a survival guide. It is very well written and understandable. It has answered all the questions that I had that no one else seemed to fully explain. I now have an incredibly deeper understanding of how my sons perceive this world of ours. I highly recommend this book to any parent looking for answers. It is like a bible and I am so grateful that I found it. The tips,charts,helps, and personal experiences make this book a must!!!

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

5.0 out of 5 stars Parents, you can do it!, Mar 10 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Survival Strategies for Parenting Your Add Child: Dealing With Obsessions, Compulsions, Depression, Explosive Behavior, and Rage (Paperback)

This is a wonderful book that can literally change the lives of despairing parents of children with attention problems. It doesn't just present coping strategies, it addresses the heart of the problems by exploring two main questions: how can parents move from seeing their child as an terrible trial to seeing him/her as a challenge that can be met? And how do they move from seeing only the child's behavior to understanding what's going on inside? After these two central underlying issues are addressed, parents can move on to strategies to help their child learn new behaviors, such as identifying when stresses are building, practicing relaxation and focusing techniques, and finding satisfying activities. The book also helps parents understand the strains on their marriage and their other children, and find ways to regain some peace and pleasure. I came away from this book feeling more equipped to be an appropriate teacher for my child, helping her to identify and meet her own needs, rather than another adult voice telling her to "behave properly." The book could use a little editing, but the ideas and strategies can help any parent move from feeling helpless and desperate to feeling capable of supporting, loving, and helping their child.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

5.0 out of 5 stars A Gentle Hand Reaching Out, Jan 5 2001

By

Catherine Brennecke (Redmond, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Survival Strategies for Parenting Your Add Child: Dealing With Obsessions, Compulsions, Depression, Explosive Behavior, and Rage (Paperback)

After coming to your site today to order yet ANOTHER copy of this book, it dawned on me that I need to write a review also! I probably should just order a CASE of them next time as I am continually recommending this book to others. When you receive a diagnosis that your child has one or more of the "differences" that George Lynn writes about, it can be so frightening and you often feel hopeless and very much alone. This book is like a gentle hand reaching out to you in the darkness. He not only gives you the important clinical information you may need to move forward, but more than that, when you come to the end of the book you feel affirmed, encouraged, empowered and with the deep belief that "yes, my child may have these issues, but just look at his wonderful gifts as well!" In my work as a pastoral counselor I time and time again find mysaelf sharing this book with weary and often very frightened parents. I too know this feeling of despair as I am the mother of one of these wonderful, wild children! Thank you George Lynn for reaching out your hand to me and to my son through this healing book. You have saved our lives, and I am eternally grateful.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all 9 customer reviews on Amazon.ca

Want to see more reviews on this item?

› Go to Amazon.com to see all 10 reviews 4.7 out of 5 stars

Most recent customer reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Full of positive, useful information.
Finally, a book that explains ADHD and all related disorders in one book. I appreciate the simple, easy to understand language, as well as, the techniques the author suggests... Read more

Published on Oct 9 1999 by pooh1kid

2.0 out of 5 stars unecessarily technical - real work to get through
Though this book dealt with all the right issues, it was so fogged with psycho-techno-terminology, one has the sense it is written for professionals rather than parents. Read more

Published on July 25 1999