From Chaos to Calm: Effective Parenting for Challenging Children with ADHD and other Behavior Problems [Paperback]

Janet E. Heininger (Author), Sharon K. Weiss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 8, 2001

Three points of view-parent's, therapist's, and child's-make this the most practical guide on the market for raising a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or other behavioral issues.

Traditional parenting and discipline books aren't effective for parents who are dealing with kids with ADHD, OCD, depression or other disorders. They need a guide that will help them with the unique discipline and organization challenges kids with these issues have. When getting up, going to school, completing homework, helping with chores, and getting to bed all become battlegrounds, the step-by-step proven techniques presented here will help parents achieve peace in their households. It will teach parents how to:

¥ Engage in proactive, not reactive, parenting
¥ Discipline consistently and effectively
¥ Deal with stalling, forgetting, overreacting, and other everyday behavior problems
¥ Work with a child's teachers, and more.

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About the Author

Janet E. Heininger, Ph.D., is a former assistant professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and the mother of two children, including a son with ADHD. Sharon K. Weiss, a behavioral consultant in private practice in northern Virginia, speaks nationally and internationally on parenting and behavior management, among other topics, and has worked as a teacher of special-needs children. A founding member of ADHD Professionals Group, she has also served as a program coordinator and supervisor of an intervention program for behavior-disordered children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; 1 edition (May 8, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399526617
• ISBN-13: 978-0399526619
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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47 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars How do you define chaos?, August 5, 2003

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Amy Shannon "Amy S." (Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Chaos to Calm: Effective Parenting for Challenging Children with ADHD and other Behavior Problems (Paperback)

This book may be useful for children with only ADD with no hyperactivity or children not suffering from any biological problems. But if you define chaos by not remembering to turn off lights or flush the toilet or by forgetting homework, then I don't think you truely know what chaos is. I live with a ADHD and Bipolar child who truely causes chaos in my home, including hitting, slamming doors, throwing things, cutting his sister's hair, climbing out the window, etc., and he is only six. This book did not help me at all. It made me cry and wish I just had the problems they discussed. If you have true chaos choose another book. The Explosive Child by Ross Greene helped me a lot.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful resource for parenting ideas, June 30, 2001

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Amy (Upstate NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Chaos to Calm: Effective Parenting for Challenging Children with ADHD and other Behavior Problems (Paperback)

This is one of the best parenting books I have read. Don't let the title dissuade you from thinking that this book is only for families with ADHD children. It provides many ideas for organizing and structuring family life to reduce stress and lower the amount of yelling. The ideas are constructive and positive while the roles of punishment and negative re-enforcement are minimalized. A few of the ideas Sharon Weiss, the second author, gave me helped with getting my children to do their chores and teaching them how to structure their time so homework, getting out of the house in the morning and bedtime are not so laborous and time intensive. The ideas presented are helpful for younger age children not yet able to read to teenager.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These techniques really work!, June 11, 2001

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Susan Biggs (Fairfax, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Chaos to Calm: Effective Parenting for Challenging Children with ADHD and other Behavior Problems (Paperback)

As an educational therapist and parent of two children, I found this book to be helpful both for my clients and my family. The ideas make sense and implementing them is straight-forward. I tried several of the ideas at home to see if they are easier than they sound...wow...instant changes in problem behaviors! For example, my four year old would not stay in bed at bedtime. Offering her an incentive (5 pennies if she stayed in bed), and a consequence (lose a penny for each time out of bed) stopped the behavior in one night. 90 minutes of arguing to zero on the first try. I highly recommend this book to parents of easy and not so easy kids.