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

Pathways and Triggers 25 what thinking skills your child is lacking, you’ll know ex- actly the thinking skills that need to be t ...

26 The Explosive Child cognitive set, there’s a good chance he’ll be thinking and acting as if he’s still in recess long after r ...

Pathways and Triggers 27 How do we know a child is having difficulty shifting cognitive set? He tells us! Let’s listen in: Paren ...

28 The Explosive Child school, being absentminded, and slow in getting ready for school in the morning) and impulsive (calling o ...

Pathways and Triggers 29 idence a pattern called reflexive negativity. This refers to the tendency for the child to instantaneou ...

30 The Explosive Child deal successfully with problems (under calmer circum- stances, they can actually demonstrate such knowled ...

Pathways and Triggers 31 and think rationally in the midst of frustration. Quite the opposite, in fact. So we often tell explosi ...

32 The Explosive Child self-regulate, set goals, and manage emotions. Let’s ex- amine the role of three specific language skills ...

Pathways and Triggers 33 they need something, they point, grunt, cry, or babble. Then we get to try to figure out what they’re t ...

34 The Explosive Child whose language skills are lagging may have difficulty effi- ciently accessing past solutions that are sto ...

Pathways and Triggers 35 Therapist: Can you think of anything else now? George: I could have asked him when he was going to put ...

36 The Explosive Child tated, cranky, fatigued mood a whole lot more often than others, and they experience these feelings a who ...

Pathways and Triggers 37 ure, poor peer relations, or being bullied. There are many “bipolar” children whose explosiveness is fa ...

38 The Explosive Child has the potential to make rational thought much more difficult. Of course, it’s when we’re anxious about ...

Pathways and Triggers 39 could scan the skies for oncoming aircraft), and had to review the emergency instruction card before th ...

40 The Explosive Child ning the aircraft for empty seats to move to). The plane landed safely, of course, and as I was leaving t ...

Pathways and Triggers 41 been on that arrived safely. About how calm the flight at- tendants look. About how many of my fellow p ...

42 The Explosive Child ceptions to the rule or alternative ways of looking at things. As children develop, they learn that, in f ...

Pathways and Triggers 43 cess alone) and important conditions (an assembly, per- haps) that would suggest the need for an adapta ...

44 The Explosive Child SOCIAL SKILLS There are few human activities that require more flexibil- ity, complex thinking, and rapid ...