The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically I

The Waffle Episode 5 cult children... you know, kids who are hyperactive or having trouble paying attention. I would give my lef ...

6 The Explosive Child label, children like Jennifer are distinguished by a few characteristics—namely, striking inflexibility an ...

The Waffle Episode 7 agenda but is able to manage his frustration and shift gears (sometimes with the assistance of a threat han ...

8 The Explosive Child was diagnosed with ADHD, began to cry in our first ses- sion when I asked if he thought it might be a good ...

The Waffle Episode 9 well-intentioned people, who often feel guilty that they haven’t been able to help their children. “You kno ...

10 The Explosive Child about why these children adapt so poorly to changes and requests, are so easily frustrated, and explode s ...

2 Children Do Well If They Can One of the most amazing and gratifying things about being a parent is watching your child develop ...

12 The Explosive Child skills develop. Some children learn to read more readily than they learn to do math. Some children turn o ...

Children Do Well If They Can 13 ability, and frustration tolerance. When two children dis- agree about which game to play, we ho ...

14 The Explosive Child noises, lights, and discomfort (hunger, cold, a wet diaper, etc.), and respond poorly to changes. Other c ...

Children Do Well If They Can 15 born,” “willful,” “intransigent,” “manipulative,” “bratty,” “attention-seeking,” “controlling,” ...

16 The Explosive Child Children do well if they can. In other words, if your child could do well, he would do well. If he could ...

Children Do Well If They Can 17 ment programs. More on why these programs often don’t get the job done in chapter 5. Let’s move ...

18 The Explosive Child tion. But in the case of the kids this book is about—the explosive ones—it’s why they explode. Now we jus ...

Children Do Well If They Can 19 In a perfect world the child would respond with something like, “See, Mom and Dad, I have this l ...

20 The Explosive Child author of Emotional Intelligence, referred to explosions as a “neural hijacking.” It’s pretty clear that ...

Children Do Well If They Can 21 Putting conventional explanations on the shelf will also mean putting conventional parenting pr ...

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3 Pathways and Triggers A few important things need to happen if we are to reduce or eliminate your child’s ex- plosions. If it’ ...

24 The Explosive Child the absence of which can set the stage for a child to head down the path to explosive behavior. Fortunate ...