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Parenting Children With Health Issues: Essential Tools, Tips, and Tactics for Raising Kids With Chronic Illness, Medical Conditions, and Special Healthcare Needs
by Foster W. Cline, Lisa Greene
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Love & Logic Press (2007-06-30)
ISBN: 1930429894
EAN: 9781930429895
Dewey Decimal #: 618.92
Binding/Media: Paperback - 343 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 8102009342
Condition: New
Comments: 1930429894 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
2008 Gold Winner of the Mom's Choice Awards, 2008 Winner of the Indie Excellence Awards for Parenting and Family, and 2007 Finalist for Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year! Special parenting skills are needed to raise kids with special needs. Whether your child struggles with allergies, asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, an eating disorder or any other health issue, you will find the essential parenting skills to help your child comply with medical requirements, cope well with health challenges, and live a hope-filled life. Get practical and compassionate answers as you learn effective ways to communicate about health issues with children of all ages. Discover how to:
-Promote responsibility without nagging, lecturing or yelling.
-Answer your child's tough questions about medical issues.
-Empower your child to make wise self-care decisions.
-Avoid power struggles and other common parenting traps.
-Handle refusal to take medication and do medical treatments.
-Avoid the dangers of over-protection.
-Prepare your child for the transition to independence.
-Navigate sibling, family and couple relationship challenges. This newest addition to Love and Logic's library takes familiar and much-loved Love and Logic concepts to new heights. Foster W. Cline MD is a well-known child psychiatrist and co-founder of Love and Logic. Lisa Greene is the mother of two children with cystic fibrosis. They have teamed up to provide parents and medical providers with a valuable new resource for families who have children with special needs. About Love and Logic®
For over thirty years, The Love and Logic Institute has been teaching parents and educators worldwide how to create happy families and raise responsible kids. Love and Logic's powerful, yet easy-to-use, parenting techniques have been adapted for use with children who have special healthcare needs.
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Customer Reviews
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Parenting Children with Health Issues
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-03-23
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a nurse that works with children with Congenital Heart Disease and many other health problems, I find that parents can be overwelmed with their child's disease process and put parenting on the back burner. Parenting doesn't mean being the bad guy. This book tells you how to parent with love, not anger and encourage your child to grow, mature and cope even in the face of critical health problems. Many parents tend to keep their child in the dark about their illness until they become young adults and then do not know why their child doesn't take over their own healthcare needs or doesn't know how to cope with their illness. Instead of reading the whole book which can overwelm many parents we encourage reading specific chapters first and especially read the stories. If you ever get a chance to attend one of the author's presentations jump at the chance to attend.
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Long Awaited Advice
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-02-11
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
As the mother of a child who has Cystic Fibrosis, I was so happy to begin reading this book and using it's suggestions immediately. I found that the advice, when applied correctly, really does work. Our CF respitory therapist recommended it to me, and it has been a great reference for me and my husband. I plan on sharing it with our extended family as well so they may have the tools on hand when needed.
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Life changing and peace making
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-06-08
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the most helpful book I have ever read. My wife reads parenting books and luckily she left this one sitting on the table. I like that it's caring but not too sappy and the tools are simple and straight forward. This book has made a huge difference in the way I deal with our kids, all of them including the one with cystic fibrosis. I feel like I can handle things better because I know what to say and do when my kids are acting up instead of getting mad at them. Our kid with CF hardly ever fights with us about his medications now and he seems happier, too. I also don't fight with my wife about the kids as much. It has really helped us. Our home is so much more relaxed.
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A wise guide for raising empowered children under difficult circumstances
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-11-19
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is a profound yet practical guide to raising resilient children who have significant health issues. The publication of this book can best be described as a gift to families who are faced with far more complex challenges than are found in those with more typical children. These challenges include how to help children feel a sense of control, acceptance and hope while living with serious disorders. It provides a wise guide for helping raise children who are able to embrace life while taking good care of their health conditions. The book reflects a synthesis of the best in parenting skills along with a rich understanding of child psychology, family dynamics and a range of chronic disorders. This wealth of information is distilled for the reader in a format that is easy to follow; readers are provided with numerous examples of how to implement these insights. It is a unique and thorough guide to critical aspects of child-rearing that are just not found anywhere else. I regard this book as simply indispensable for families and professionals alike. It is a gem.
Laura E. Marshak
Author (with Fran Prezant) of : Married with Special-Needs Children [A couple's guide to keeping connected], Woodbine House 2007
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An invaluable, experience-laden guide accessible to parents and caretakers of all backgrounds, highly recommended.
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-10-06
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Child psychiatrist Foster W. Cline and mother of two children with cystic fibrosis Lisa Greene present Parenting Children with Health Issues: Essential Tools, Tips and Tactics for Raising Kids with Chronic Illness, Medical Conditions & Special Healthcare Needs, a guide to learning and applying the parenting skills needed for raising children who require special medical or dietary care. Chapters discuss how to handle a child's refusal to take medication or undergo medical treatments, promote personal responsibility, deal with sibling, family, and couple relationship issues, and much more. "Because chronically ill children can so easily drift into feeling 'unfair-ed upon' by life, some become entitled and demanding, developing and exploiting placating parents who, as their child becomes more demanding, have increasing difficulty separating 'wants' from 'needs.' Entitled people, children or adults, have a tendency to control others through what they define as their 'needs.'" An invaluable, experience-laden guide accessible to parents and caretakers of all backgrounds, highly recommended.
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