The Explosive Child

A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

By: Dr. Ross W. Greene

Narrated by: Dr. Ross W. Greene

Dr. Ross Greene, a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the treatment of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids aren't attentionseeking, manipulative, or unmotivated, and their parents aren't passive, permissive disciplinarians. Rather, explosive kids are lacking some crucial skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, and they require a different approach to parenting.

The Explosive Child is the highly acclaimed, lifechanging parenting guide in which Dr. Greene first delineated the Collaborative Problem Solving approach. Dr. Greene explains why kids exhibit challenging behaviors, why traditional behavior management strategies may not be effective for many kids, and how to use Plan B to solve problems collaboratively and teach your child the skills he or she is lacking.

As the model has evolved over the years, so has The Explosive Child, and it is available here in an abridged and updated fourth edition narrated by Dr. Greene.

Throughout this compassionate, insightful, and practical book, Dr. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding their difficulties. He explains why traditional parenting and treatment often don't work with these children, and he describes what to do instead. Instead of relying on rewarding and punishing, Dr. Greene's Collaborative Problem Solving model promotes working with explosive children to solve the problems that precipitate explosive episodes, and teaching these kids the skills they lack.

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2011 Dr. Ross Greene (P)2011 Dr. Ross Greene

excellent

Useful book for those of us who've tried everything else and are sick of professionals telling us that sticker charts will help!
Only wish there was an unabridged version.

The answer is in this book for every child, parent, coach and teacher.

I wish I would have read this book before marriage before having kids! It has so many answers for every relationship for every parent, teacher, coach, even to deal w any relationship!

Helpful

While I don't feel that the concepts here are necessarily novel, the concrete strategies, combined with some good war stories do help. If you have an explosive child, this is a must read. Even if you have a well behaved child, this book is still worth the short listen.

balanced perspective

read with Dr. James Dobsons Stong willed child it gives a great balanced perspective. there is a difference between discipline situations an explosive situations and each should be handled differently.

for any relationship

This book and the 'Myth of the Spoiled Child' got me to reassess what successful parenting looks like.

The Conflict Resolution tactics in this can be used in any relationship and I think it would be good to explicitly teach kids how to implement it as well as provide an example when you face conflict with them.