The Impossible Child in School, at Home: A Guide for Caring Teachers and Parents [Paperback]

Doris J. Rapp (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0961631813 | ISBN-13: 978-0961631819 | Publication Date: June 1989 | Edition: 2

This book will enable you to recognize which children have allergies, or food or chemical sensitivities interfering with their ability to learn and behave normally. Practical sensible ways to help children with these problems are discussed. With this information you may be able to alter the course of some child's life in a more positive direction - today!

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About the Author

Doris J. Rapp, MD is a board-certified environmental medical specialist and pediatric allergist. She is the New York Times best-selling author of "Is This Your Child?".

Product Details

• Paperback: 154 pages
• Publisher: Practical Allergy Res Fndtn; 2 edition (June 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0961631813
• ISBN-13: 978-0961631819
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,172,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great gift for teachers and parents, November 12, 2000

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"lebruns" (Los Alamos, NM USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Impossible Child in School, at Home: A Guide for Caring Teachers and Parents (Paperback)

Easily read and understood book. Kids don't like being bad and this book explains why, because of their reactions to their environment, they can't help it. It addresses the reasons, not the symptoms, of poor performance. Great book for parents who care to give their children the best possible chance in life. Not for parents who just want to give their child a pill. This book's content will become common knowledge in the future as parents demand more out of the medical field.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ADD? You Need This Book!, April 17, 2003

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Heidi M. Hawkins "heidimo" (Bellingham, WA: City of Subdued Excitement) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The impossible child in school--at home: A guide for caring teachers and parents (Paperback)

This guidebook is an essential reference for teachers, parents, and anyone who deals with kids on a regular basis. The prevalence of ADD diagnoses should lead us all to question what the bigger picture is. Allergy problems are one of the most important consequences of our modern world. This guidebook is designed to help laypeople spot allergies in kids, especially the kids who act up. It's a shame to drug kids with Ritalin when dietary or environmental changes can give better results without turning children into zombies. To ignore the accomplishments of Environmental Medicine would be foolish.

There is a lot of detail packed into this small book to help parents and teachers understand food, environmental, and chemical allergies, and to spot them on their own. Helpful advice is provided for different diets that can reveal a lot about a troubled child's behavior. Diagnostic diets (elimination diets) are detailed as well as rotation diets to minimize food reactions. Descriptions of children's allergic responses are detailed and accurate, making it easier for you to know how to spot allergies in kids.

Though this low-budget publication is written by a doctor and not a writer, it is not overly technical in style. The writing is to-the-point, a how-to manual for your potentially allergic kid, full of suggestions, case studies, and references. Dr. Rapp is an expert in the field of pediatric environmental medicine in the tradition of Theron Randolph MD, and her experience is apparent. Though I know there are better treatments than extracts for allergies (her recommendation, in addition to dietary and/or environmental changes), it is still a vast improvement over drugs and allergy shots. Her diagnostic methods are also not the best known, but still better than the more mainstream methods she also details in this guide. To be critical, this is not a guide to the most cutting-edge diagnosis or treatment in modern allergy medicine, but it's a vast improvement over more mainstream approaches of Ritalin, steroids, and other drugs. Every parent of an ADD-type child needs this book!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars well in depth with info on allergies and adhd, January 6, 1999

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This review is from: The Impossible Child in School, at Home: A Guide for Caring Teachers and Parents (Paperback)

I have asthma and allergies ,I'm 16 yrs. old. I also have reflex sympathetic dystrophy. I did one of the allergy testing diets and it helped me to identify my allergies.