Great Days Ahead: Parenting Children Who Have ADHD

by Frank E. Bowers, Tara R. S. Borsh

When a child has been diagnosed with or shows the symptoms of ADHD, parents emotions probably swing from sadness to frustration to anger on a daily, if not hourly, basis. The difficulties of parenting a hyperactive, disorganized, inattentive, forgetful, aggressive child may threaten to overwhelm them. When the author heard that same diagnosis for his own son years ago, he recognized that he himself had struggled with many of those symptoms throughout his childhood and adult life. He also decided that he needed to return to school to learn more about the disorder so that he could help not only his own son but other families with such children. Dr. Frank E. Bowers is now the proud parent of a successful adult son and has counseled thousands of families raising children with ADHD. With a father s insight and a clinician s knowledge, Dr. Bowers examines the challenges a child with ADHD presents and offers parents workable, effective ways of handling the behavior problems. He reminds parents that, despite the diagnosis, children need to be held responsible for their actions and he suggests how to use positive discipline strategies to help them learn better behavior. In this book, parents will discover how to address their child s issues at school, at meals and bedtime, with siblings and peers, and out in public. The tools Dr. Bowers provides can empower frustrated or fearful parents to approach raising a child who has ADHD with renewed hope and confidence.

Genres: Adhd

147 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2011

Reviews

[Sarah]

Oldie but a goodie. Quick read with great ideas for disciplining and supporting a child with ADHD... although some of the ideas should help any child!

[Angela Hedworth]

This is probably the most helpful book I have read with practical solutions for parenting a child with ADHD. So good in fact that I placed an order to Amazon for my own copy as a reference tool and took a ton of notes. While a lot of the information I have learned in one of the thousands of parenting classes we have taken over the years, having all of the information in one location and succinct, is extremely valuable. I especially enjoyed the chapters on siblings and making friends which are still huge issues for us. Highly recommend for those that have a child with a new ADHD diagnosis or even if you have been parenting an ADHD child for a long time and what you have been doing doesn't seem to be working. Great self-reflection questions about your parenting goals are also very helpful.

[Margaret MacKenzie]

This was an amazing read with lots of wonderful information and tips, that are helping me parent my 4 year old son. He doesn't have ADHD that we know of yet but he has a lot of the features. He has been diagnosed with anxiety and hyper-sensitivity disorder. Raising him has been trying, frustrating and wonderful all at the same time. That's why books like this are so great. It's the type of book that I would definitely recommend, that I want to purchase so that I can dog-ear the pages and so that I can read and re-read it.