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No More Meltdowns: Positive Strategies For Dealing With And Preventing Out-Of-Control Behavior (2008)

by Jed Baker(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1932565620 (ISBN13: 9781932565621)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Future Horizons

review 1: Having read several of Jed Baker's books, I held off on reading this one, knowing that the others had been excellent, but wanting to see what useful information this one would have to offer. The best section in it for me was the explanation on brain regions, fight or flight response and reptilian brains. An excellent, simple, explanation, it made a great deal of sense. The other stuff in the book...not so much. This is not the fault of the book itself, but its intended audience. It doesn't appear to include how to teach children self-regulation skills, so much as monitoring your own (read: parents') behavior, setting up a behavioral diary to figure out why meltdowns are occurring, and advice on picky eaters, bed time, disorganization, etc. (Oddly, advice that might have ap... morepeared in Baker's other books about autism -- a need for organizational planning assistance -- is not mentioned here). Good for parents. For readers of Baker's other excellent social skills book, you might find something useful here, but it assumes parents might already know skills and possibly only need reminders regarding them.
review 2: This book was given to me by my son's counselor. It has step-by-step instructions for cooling off a tantrum while it's happening, and then guides you through training your child to not have tantrums. It approaches almost every conceivable situation with individual methods that follow a basic formula.I have had a few successful situations following this book. I think it has good basics as long as the parent is willing to follow through. less

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