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Title: The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five "Difficult" Types of Children by Stanley I. Greenspan, Jacqueline Salmon, Jacrueline Salmon ISBN: 0-201-44193-4 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Everyone needs this book!
Comment: I took this book out of the library because of my high-energy, aggressive 2 year old, and am now here to buy it because I need to have it by my bed until I memorize it!! Only half kidding...it has been enormously helpful in thinking about his behavior. But the surprise is, all of my other kids are in here too, as well as me and my husband! Anyone with a strong personality was probably a difficult child, at least in some ways (ask your mom!!), and this book gives you insight into how you got the way you are, and how your personality might intersect with your child's to cause trouble understanding each other.
My favorite thing about this book is the way Greenspan includes a section on "what it feels like" to be each of the types of challenging children, so you can understand that your child often really, truly, doesn't see the world at all the way you do. They are not just trying to drive you nuts, they genuinely sometimes see black when you see white! If you can get behind their eyes you can support them so much better when things get hairy.
I would agree with the other reviewers that there isn't much in this book about special needs per se-- if you're looking for a book on ADD or another issue of that sort you may not find what you need here in terms of specific information. But for garden-variety behavior issues, plain old intense kids, and parent-child communication troubles, this book is fantastic.
Rating: 2
Summary: Didn't mention mental problems child may have!
Comment: This book is okay if you don't have a child with severe problems. My child is ADHD and ODD but there is no mention of coping with mental illness in this book.
I bought it thinking help would be inside the pages, but was dissapointed instead; When it was read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superior for those dealing with special needs children
Comment: This title was recommended during a teacher orientation and it is easy to see why. This book should be required reading for anyone who is mentoring, teaching or parenting a special needs child.
Feel the calm as you learn new techniques. Many of which are totally out of line as to what you may have been taught was normal or proper. Insightful, thoughtful and necessary.
Emotional intellegence has never before been so clearly addressed.
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