The Explosive Child or The Official Pocket Guide to Diabetic Exchanges

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

Author: Ross W Green

A groundbreaking approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other intractable behaviours, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in this field, now updated to include the most recent research.

Almost everyone knows an explosive child, one whose frequent, severe fits of temper leave his or her parents standing helpless in their fear, frustration, and guilt. Most of these parents have tried everything—reasoning, behaviour modification, therapy, medication—but to no avail. They wonder if their child is deviant or just plain bad.

Dr. Ross Greene has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids aren't bad, and neither are their parents. Rather, explosive children suffer from a physiological deficiency in frustration tolerance and flexibility. Throughout this compassionate book, Dr. Greene demonstrates why traditional treatments don't work for these kids and offers a new conceptual framework for understanding their behaviour, along with new language to describe it. He explains the latest neuroscience findings about the importance of flexibility, and, most important, he shows parents specific, practical ways they can recognize the signs of an impending explosion, defuse tension, and reduce frustration levels for the entire family.

• For parents, psychologists, educators and ADHD groups.
• In addition to the scientific foundation of the book, Greene addresses parents in practical ways that will help show results in difficult children and their effect on families.

Edward Hallowell

All parents should read this book, especially those with children who are out of control. Ross Greene presents a loving, rational, and research-based approach to dealing with problems that most parents have either felt were their own fault or were unsolvable. I could not recommend this book more highly.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
1	The Waffle Episode	1
2	Terrible Beyond Two	9
3	Pathways to Inflexibility-Explosiveness	26
4	Inflexible-Explosive Faces	56
5	The Truth About Consequences	85
6	Corrective Lenses	101
7	Basket Case	130
8	Brain Chemistry	180
9	Roadmaps	192
10	Family Matters	217
11	All Things Considered	238
12	User-friendlier Schools	264
13	Change of Venue	298
14	Children Do Well If They Can	309
	Additional Resources and Support	315
	Index	321
	About the Author	335

The Official Pocket Guide to Diabetic Exchanges

Author: American Diabetes Association

Every day,every meal,millions and millions of people count on the world-famous Exchange Lists for Meal Planning to make sure they're choosing the right kinds of foods and portion sizes from the various food groups.

Now people with diabetes can take the Exchange Lists with them to the grocery store or to restaurants with the Official Pocket Guide to Diabetic Exchanges. Measuring just 3. 5" x 6",this little powerhouse is jam-packed with the exact same information found in the standard exchange lists,yet it fits conveniently into a purse or coat pocket.