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

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The Plan B Classroom


As hard as it is to help an ex-


plosive child within a family, it may be even harder in a
classroom in the company of an additional twenty-five
to thirty kids, many of whom have other types of spe-
cial needs themselves. Like parents, most general educa-
tion teachers have never been responsible for helping an
explosive child and have never received any specialized
training to prepare them for this task.
Fortunately, most explosive kids don’t actually show
any signs of explosiveness at school. Here are a few pos-
sible explanations for this phenomenon, including some
mentioned earlier:
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