Low-demand parenting Dropping demands, restoring calm, and finding connection with your uniquely wired child / Amanda Diekman
Book - 2023
Parent to neurodivergent children and autistic adult, Amanda Diekman, outlines a parenting approach that finally lowers the bar for the whole family, enabling the equilibrium of the home to be restored. Low-demand parenting allows you to drop the demands and expectations that are making family life impossible and embrace the joyful freedom of living life with low demands. It can be a particularly effective approach for children with high anxiety levels including neurodivergent children. Amanda talks from experience and teaches you how to identify what the big, tiny and invisible demands are for your own child and gives you the step-by-step instructions on how to drop them. Full of practical resources and scripts that are easy to implement i...n busy everyday life, this book is your flashlight and your map to parenting your uniquely wired child. It will not tell you where to go, but it will help you find your way so you and your family thrive.
- Subjects
- Published
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London :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
2023.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 158 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781839977688
- 1. My Story
- 2. The Neuroscience of Connection
- 3. Uniquely Wired Kids
- 4. What Are Demands?
- 5. How to Drop Demands
- 6. How to Get Started with Low-Demand Parenting
- 7. Practical Examples
- 8. Low-Demand Parenting and Screens
- 9. A Low-Demand Approach to Screens
- 10. Our Story of Low-Demand Co-Parenting
- 11. A Low-Demand Approach to Co-Parenting
- 12. Toward a Thriving Future
- Resources
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author