99 Ways to Drive Your Child Sane

By Brita St. Clair

Book Overview

This little book is full of wild ideas and hysterical humor to bring the laughter back into a home with an emotionally disturbed child. Need a good laugh? This book will do it! It includes lots of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970352514
• ISBN13: 9780970352514
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Families by Design
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Walk in our shoes....

A lot of these ideas we have already tried or come up with ourselves, however this is a valuable book. The book gives other options and, if you know or share your life with a child or in our case, children with RAD, you need options because what worked yesterday will not work today! If you feel that a suggestion is too harsh, then don't use that one; move on to the next! Overall good value and worth having on hand.

great book for RAD parents

It is a great book of suggestions for RAD parents. I found it very helpful.

NOT for Mentally Healthy Children - For Reactive Attachment Disorder!

I think it's very important to know that this type of parenting is for children with RAD. Children with RAD are their own little islands; they have NO emotional investment in anyone or anything! They do not respond to "proper" parenting techniques. In fact, they get worse! They are so full of rage and hurt that they CANNOT think like normal children. You have to mess with their heads in order to get them to "snap out of it" for brief moments - long enough for them to feel a little love. The more you play head games that invade their rage-filled worlds, the more they feel the love that is leading the invasion. This can help them gradually feel enough love and emotional attachment for "real" parenting to work, while these "breaking in" techniques can be left to the wayside. Of course it seems absolutely insane! It is! But, when you have an insane child, it can be necessary to play Devil's Advocate in order to help him/her. I would have burned this book before I got my RAD child, but now I understand. If your child loves you and expresses it, has empathy, remorse for wrongs done, and never purposely injures others, you probably don't need this book and won't like it. However, if your child (especially adopted or step-child!) lacks empathy, remorse, loving actions, or conscience, go to www.attachment.org and get some help! Including this book!

99 Ways to Drive Your Child Sane

This is an AMAZING book. It is written for kids who have RAD but I know that some of these ideas work with my none RAD children as well as my RAD child. A MUST HAVE for any parent! It makes you look at life in a whole new light. Everyone MUST check this book out!

Not for parents of "regular" kids"

I tell all parents and all one-on-one workers with challenging children to get a copy of this book. While these approaches were written for parents of children with RAD (reactive attachment disorder), many of them are applicable to children diagnosed with ODD (oppositional defiant disorder), Bipolar, or other emotional and behavioral issues. Parents who have "regular" children are unfamiliar with how different it is to parent a challenging child. These pointers help keep kids thinking and wondering...just what's needed to help them heal.