Parenting your child with ADHD : a no-nonsense guide for nurturing self-reliance and cooperation in your child

It is now possible for concerned parents to treat their child’s attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) without medication. This book shows them how. Written by a supervising psychologist who specializes in child behavioral issues, **Parenting Your Child with ADHD** presents a groundbreaking program for parents seeking to reduce their child’s inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity and strengthen his or her capacity for self-reliance and cooperation. This unique program promotes positive ways of interrelating and shows parents the five main ways they may have unwittingly reinforced ADHD symptoms in the past. Far from encouraging parents to strictly manage ADHD children, this approach promotes independence in kids so that less discipline and surveillance is necessary. Specifically, this book helps parents promote cooperation by phrasing their requests in specific ways, reduce pressure on their child, and acknowledge the child’s preference as a way to make cooperation a more attractive choice to him or her. Parents learn to resolve problems related to messiness, inappropriate silliness and intrusiveness, chores and helping family members, coordinating schedules, sneaking and stealing, noise and yelling, and overreacting. The second part of the book moves on to issues that take place outside the home, such as shopping excursions, family outings, and travel. Finally, parents learn ways to increase their child’s independence and cooperation with schoolwork and compliance in the classroom environment. The child learns the value of being knowledgeable without the motivation of punishment or gift rewards.

It is now possible for concerned parents to treat their child’s attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) without medication. This book shows them how. Written by a supervising psychologist who specializes in child behavioral issues, Parenting Your Child with ADHD presents a groundbreaking program for parents seeking to reduce their child’s inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity and strengthen his or her capacity for self-reliance and cooperation. This unique program promotes positive ways of interrelating and shows parents the five main ways they may have unwittingly reinforced ADHD symptoms in the past. Far from encouraging parents to strictly manage ADHD children, this approach promotes independence in kids so that less discipline and surveillance is necessary.

Specifically, this book helps parents promote cooperation by phrasing their requests in specific ways, reduce pressure on their child, and acknowledge the child’s preference as a way to make cooperation a more attractive choice to him or her. Parents learn to resolve problems related to messiness, inappropriate silliness and intrusiveness, chores and helping family members, coordinating schedules, sneaking and stealing, noise and yelling, and overreacting. The second part of the book moves on to issues that take place outside the home, such as shopping excursions, family outings, and travel. Finally, parents learn ways to increase their child’s independence and cooperation with schoolwork and compliance in the classroom environment. The child learns the value of being knowledgeable without the motivation of punishment or gift rewards.

If your child has attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you are likely familiar with certain problem behaviors, such as a lack of focus, impulsiveness, and reluctance to carry out responsibilities. So how do you get cooperation without hassle when your child is interested in doing something else? How can you foster your child's maturity? And perhaps most importantly, how can you help your child to stay on task when you aren't there to watch? This book includes strategies to reduce your child's inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and impulsivity while strengthening his or her capacity for self-reliance. You will also discover mistakes that parents unknowingly make that can actually reinforce ADHD behaviors In Parenting Your Child with ADHD, a psychologist specializing in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) offers a revolutionary new intervention for ADHD in children. His thirty years in private practice and research form the basis of a cutting-edge approach in which parents identify factors that contribute to the reinforcement of ADHD behaviors and learn to reinforce independent responsibility and empathy toward others instead. So your child has an ADHD diagnosis Understanding adhd behavior as reinforced The five reinforcements for ADHD behavior Ten guiding principles to reduce ADHD behavior Teaching your child self-care Reducing adhd behavior in the family Managing ADHD behavior away from home Adjusting your child to school Two important obstacles you may face. Cutting-edge approach in which parents identify factors that contribute to the reinforcement of ADHD behaviours.