The Explosive Child

I finally went out and bought the book "The Explosive Child" by Ross W Greene, Ph.D. .
It has been recommended to me by several parents who are raising children with a variety of challenges. The premise of the book is that "Children do well if they can".
It focuses less on reward and punishment and more on communication and collaborative problem-solving (these are skills that are missing in children with ADHD, FASD, ASD and other diagnoses.). It is a different approach to parenting but when you think of your child as having organic brain damage or even just emotionally developmentally delayed then it makes sense that the conventional parenting techniques used in neurologically typical children wouldn't work for these children. You wouldn't expect a 2 year old to sit down and write their ABC's and then punish them if they couldn't perform that task , expecting that the punishment would, in time, teach them HOW to write their ABC's.
Here is a link to the Center for Collaborative Problem Solving
http://www.ccps.info/

This website has more info on understanding and implementing the Collaborative Problem Solving approach (also known as CPS).

I will be adding more posts as I continue to read this book and start on our journey of implementing this new parenting technique. Stay tuned for more info........

ETA: Here is the Caregiver handout for the CPS model. It really sums everything up!