The Explosive Child, Easy To Read, Offering Great Help!
I would recommend this book to anyone with Children that are sometimes, or a lot of the time, "Explosive", to where the Parent finds it disruptive and disturbing to deal with. I would also recommend this book to other Parents, such as ourselves, that may be dealing with a Child suffering from Mental Illness, which can often have difficulty with "Explosive", or even violent behavior at times. This book was recommended to us by our Psychologist, and fit the bill for some of the problems we were having difficulty handling. This was for a Four Year Old, and is helpful. I think the book would be useful for any age person. What I liked was there were many example senerios, everything easy reading, and many interesting and atypical ways each problem was handled was quite helpful. Most of these issues we are talking about, are not just a spoiled or undisciplined Child, and we are in a world that you find many more old School values, that wants to "get some discipline into that Kid", are completely ignorant, and ineffective. This book addresses the complete Psychological understanding of why these behaviors exist, and how to handle them in a better way. Understanding will make it easier for the Parents, or, Caregivers, to handle, and be less stressful for everyone. I noted "easy to read", and some may think this is a non-issue, but if your in the throws of very difficult behavior, or if you have a High-Maintenance Child, due to Mental Illness, or other problems, time is usually not on your side, so it can be a major issue for you, as it was for us. I remember being so completely overwhelmed at the first Psycologists Appointment, that I cringed at the paperwork, and at her recommendation we read this book. However glad we did. At the time, we had been dealing with about two months of extreme negative side effects causued by the Psychiatrists three trials of Zoloft, Celexia, then, Tex-X, on Our Daughter. We were then spun into a such out-of-control cycle, we had gotten to the point, we thought there was a possibility we'd need to Hospitalize this poor Little Four Year Old, as we were worried for Her. But things calmed, and understanding some of the ways to handle some of the more difficult behaviors, really can help.Read full review
