The Explosive Child
by Ross W. Greene
Greene's Collaborative and Proactive Solutions: kids do well if they can; explosions reflect lagging skills and unsolved problems, not willfulness. The method identifies specific problems and solves them with the child, in advance. It transformed how many schools and families handle behavior.
Read it if…
you have a child whose meltdowns do not respond to rewards and consequences.
Skip it if…
your child is generally flexible; the method is for chronic inflexibility.
Three things you will actually use
- Kids do well if they can.
- Identify the unsolved problem; solve it proactively.
- Collaborate: their concern, your concern, a solution for both.
Do this first
List the specific situations that trigger explosions, and pick one to solve collaboratively this week.
Our verdict
Transformative for the families who need it.
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