Product Description

Transforming the Difficult Child brings to life a new way of shifting intense children to a solid life of success. The Nurtured Heart Approach puts a refreshing spin on both parenting and teaching and reveals new techniques and strategies that create thoroughly positive behaviors. This is the newly updated 2008 revision.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6052 in Books
• Published on: 1999-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

Review
After applying these strategies for less than a month, my difficult teenage daughter is incredible. --Parent

Everything we tried in the past was making the situation worse. Now our intense child is intensely wonderful without medications. --Parent/Educator

This is absolutely the most worthwhile information I have ever learned. My hyperactive child is now my amazing child. --Parent/Therapist

From the Publisher
Comments from Readers

"We had lost hope. This approach has saved our family. We were spinning our wheels. Everything we tried in the past was making the problems worse. Now our intense child is intensely wonderful...without medications."

"My child was diagnosed with ADHD. I thought it was a death sentence. We couldn't go an hour without an argument or some horrendous incident. Now I know peace and pleasure for the first time in many years."

"This is absolutely the most worthwhile information I have ever learned. My hyperactive child is now my amazing child."

"Our child was in therapy for years. The more she got in touch with her feelings, the more she seemed to take her anger out on us. It's hard to believe, but after applying these strategies for less than a month, my difficult daughter is now a cooperative and pleasant young person."

About the Author
Howard Glasser is a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona in educational leadership. He previously completed most of his doctoral coursework in clinical psychology at New York University before pursuing a brief career as an artist. Howie has close to thirty years experience as a therapist and is currently the executive director of the Children’s Success Foundation. He is the designer of The Nurtured Heart Approach and the author of Transforming the Difficult Child, published in June of 1999. He lectures nationally, teaching parents and teachers about his approach. The Nurtured Heart Approach is now being used in hundreds of classrooms and has been adopted as a school-wide approach by numberous schools around the world as well as by Head Start programs and other early childhood venues.

Customer Reviews

NOT JUST FOR DIFFICULT CHILDREN!! What a helpful book!!
Like many of my peers, I too want to do the best possible job raising my children. The desire to be respectful and supportive does not always involve consistent discipline, but it should! Anyone with a sensitive, loving child can benefit from this book. Any parent who feels like they have tried every trick in the book to promote good behavior in their children, but can't seem to gain compliance in their kids, will benefit from this book.
I was recommended this book by our psychologist, whom we have been seeing because I ran out of coping strategies for dealing with my very sensitive, very smart, and very compliant child who seemed addicted to PUSHING MY BUTTONS!! Turns out, the very emotional responses I had to my child's poor behaviors, was promoting the very things I was trying to "punish away" Time outs escalated into screaming matches and made me feel like a drill Sargent, not very productive, and definitely not respectful or supportive! Transforming the Difficult Child has opened my eyes to "accentuate the positive" and "down play the negative" In short, shifting all of my aggravated tirades into positive reinforcement of GOOD behaviors. Within two weeks of implementing this style of attention, my 5 year old was more relaxed, more cheerful, more agreeable and happier than I had ever seen him. In turn, he was also less anxious, stopped a nervous habit of lip licking that had been with him for two years, and lots of chapped skin! He now knows that he is good MOST of the time, and only bad once in a while. I was failing to acknowledge his good behavior, because that is what we think of as "expected" but He was feeling as if he was always bad, because our energy was always spent on correcting bad behaviors.
Please read this book if you recognize any of the above story, or if you know someone who is in constant power struggles with their children. This book has a simple, gentle, loving and supportive plan of action that will change your Family for the better, even if your child isn't difficult. After all, we all want someone to acknowledge our good behaviors, who better to do it than your parent!!

Real help for desperate parents of challenging children
We adopted 2 boys through the foster system. Both of our boys have high energy and came to us with some inherent behavioral problems. We were able to help both of our boys with the help of the techniques we learned while attending a seminar taught by Howard Glasser. We've gone back to this book again and again when we needed to refresh our resolve to do conscious parenting. I highly recommend this book. I recently bought my 4th copy of this book because I've given away the first 3 books to people we knew who were struggling with a challenging child.

Finally The Insight I Desperately Needed!
After much therapy and trying every technique in the book to help my son "behave" better, this book just blew every other technique away! I felt as if it had been written for our family personally.
At the risk of sounding dramatic, this book has brought a lot of peace and happiness into our home, where before there were a lot of power struggles and misbehavior going on.
I teach children in the Arts field, and it has also helped me deal much more effectively with the more difficult students.
I think this book should become a course that parents and educators could take. If it already has, where can I sign up?
This is, hands down, the most valuable book I've read in years!