Sign up for a FREE 30-Day Amazon Prime Trial HERE.What is Ross Greene’s The Explosive Child about? Do you feel like you live according to your child’s moods? Shipping is FREE with Amazon Prime or $35+ order. If you would like to purchase this book, please use the affiliate link provided for your convenience: Greene′s Collaborative Problem Solving model promotes working with explosive children to solve the problems that precipitate explosive episodes, and teaching these kids the skills they lack. Instead of relying on rewarding and punishing, Dr. He explains why traditional parenting and treatment often don′t work with these children, and he describes what to do instead. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding their difficulties, based on research in the neurosciences.

Throughout this compassionate, insightful, and practical book, Dr. Rather, explosive kids are lacking some crucial skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, and they require a different approach to parenting. Ross Greene, a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the treatment of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids aren′t attention-seeking, manipulative, or unmotivated, and their parents aren′t passive, permissive pushovers. They can′t figure out why their child acts the way he or she does they wonder why the strategies that work for other kids don′t work for theirs and they don′t know what to do instead.ĭr. Most of these parents have tried everything-reasoning, explaining, punishing, sticker charts, therapy, medication-but to no avail. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents feeling frustrated, scared, worried, and desperate for help. What′s an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration-crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

They can′t figure out why their child acts the way he or she does they wonder why the strategies that work for other kids don′t work for theirs and they don′t know what to do instead.

The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene