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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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187523 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 343 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781930429895
• Condition: NEW
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Review
As I read this book, it sounded like a compilation of my last 30 years of caring for children with special healthcare needs. It literally felt as though the authors had been sitting in the corner of my exam rooms for all 180,000 office visits [my wife's calculation]. The fact that both Dr. Cline and Lisa Greene have children with chronic, life-shortening illnesses comes through loud and clear in their authenticity, compassion, and honesty. You will enjoy their superb use of cases, scenarios, and examples. Every parent of a child with special healthcare needs will see themselves and their children many times over in their reading of this book. I highly recommend this book to both colleagues and patients. -- Tracy L. Trotter, MD, Fellow American Academy of Pediatrics

Children are encouraged to learn self-control, have a positive self-image and learn to deal with life's frustrations with a positive attitude. This highly-readable book is really a how-to book for parents looking to support the emotional development of their ill children. -- Stanford Health Library, November 2007

I literally felt as though you had been sitting in my exam rooms for all 180,000 office visits. Every parent of a child with special healthcare needs will see themselves and their children many times in their reading of this book. I highly recommend this to colleagues and patients. -- Tracy L. Trotter, MD, Fellow American Academy of Pediatrics, April, 2007

If you're having behavior struggles with an ill child or want to start your kids on the path of good health management, it's an approach worth studying. -- About.com's Guide to Parenting Special Needs; Terri Mauro

If you're having behavior struggles with an ill child, or want to start your kids on the path of good health management, it's an approach worth studying. -- Terri Mauro, Your Guide to Parenting Special Needs; About, Inc., A part of the New York Times Company

The authors show readers how to help kids identify themselves as having a disease (rather than being one) and grow into increasingly responsible, life-loving individuals with age-appropriate nurturing, intervention, coaching, and rewards/consequences. -- Library Journal Review, June 2007

Winner 2008 Indie Excellence Award (Parenting and Family)
Winner 2008 Gold Mom's Choice Award (Health, Nutrition, Fitness & Safety)
Finalist 2007 ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year (Parenting)
-- Book Awards

From the Author
Author of fourteen books and numerous other publications, well-known child psychiatrist Foster Cline, MD says: "Coping with adversity lays the foundation for almost all true greatness. With a few simple tools, parents can encourage their special needs children to become the heroes they are destined to be." See "All Editorial Reviews" to read Dr. Cline's revealing comments.

Co-author Lisa Greene is the mother of two children with cystic fibrosis: "Having two children with a chronic, life-shortening illness has given me a perspective on life that I wouldn't have otherwise appreciated: Each day we share with our kids is a gift and every moment matters. But the difficulties that arise in living day-to-day with massive amounts of medications, medical treatments, and chronic stress can take its toll.

Kids who suffer can become understandably difficult to live with and resistant to medical requirements. This, of course, raises stress levels even more. But what can we do? We parents need answers and practical tools that work when we are down in the trenches.

Instead of theories, Love and Logic gives us realistic, easy-to-implement tools. They tell us what to say and how to say it. I have seen hundreds of families' lives change when they implement this material. Our family is one of them. I am passionate about this program because it works. Thank you, Love and Logic, for giving us the tools to be great parents when every moment matters."

From the Inside Flap
"A few books fall into the Great Work category. This is one of them. This book is a beacon of insight and guidance for parents in the most challenging of parenting circumstances. It is with great enthusiasm that I recommend this book to my colleagues and all parents of children with chronic medical conditions." - Frazier H. King, MD; Board Certified Family Practitioner

"This compassionate and heartwarming guide should occupy the bookshelves of every parent with a chronically ill child. It delivers not only practical lessons in living with chronic illness but also shows that encouragement, love, and understanding are key to addressing the challenges chronic illness imposes on children and their parents." -Tim O'Hagan, editor and author of 11 books, including the Reader's Digest Guide to Alternative Medicine and Discovering the Wonders of Our World

"Your book seems to me to be a wonderfully comprehensive guide. I especially like the many stories from other parents. It gives the book a very intimate feel- so much more than what these types of books can be. You and Dr. Cline have done a fine job and I hope it finds a wide audience. - Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated senior writer, NPR Morning Edition commentator, Emmy award winner and author of 14 books including Alex: The Life of a Child, his memoir about his daughter who died of cystic fibrosis.

"Parenting Children with Health Issues equips families facing critical health care issues with strategies for weathering the crises that are a part of chronic illness. It empowers us all with a philosophy of parenting that helps us think rationally during emotionally challenging times. It encourages us to make decisions that allow others to own their responsibilities and it offers practical tools to communicate clearly. This book helps us understand that parenting is not a quick sprint. We are distance runners, pacing for the marathon with coaches who are there for us. I cannot think of anything more valuable!" - Carroll Jenkins, Executive Director, Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc (CFRI) and a CF Parent

"Parenting requires great courage and parenting children with serious health issues is nothing short of heroism. Dr. Cline and Lisa Greene give such parents the necessary tools they need to empower their children to cope with difficult circumstances. Thank you for this easy-to-read yet powerfully instructional book." -Mitzi Gadd, R.N., M.S.; Pediatric Nurse and Marriage & Family Therapist

"This book captures the many thoughts, concerns, challenges and questions I have heard from families living with cystic fibrosis and you answered all to a `tee.' It is much better than anything I have seen for parenting a special child. We need this!" -Beverley Donelson, Co-founder of CF Pharmacy, Inc. and grandmother to a young adult with cystic fibrosis

"Thank you for your book. As a helicopter parent, it is hard for me to not take over and ensure that Tyler is going to be fine. Your book helps me see that in teaching HIM responsibility, I am giving him a greater gift than glucose levels. Although the ultimate responsibility will be Tyler's, I know that I can now give him the tools to make it. If he chooses, he can live a happy, healthy life with diabetes." - Stephanie; mom of 9-year-old Tyler

Customer Reviews

A wise guide for raising empowered children under difficult circumstances
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

An invaluable, experience-laden guide accessible to parents and caretakers of all backgrounds, highly recommended.
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.

Essential Addition to Your Parenting Library--tender, brilliant writing
Authors Cline and Green offer a truthful testimony to the question "How would you spend your precious moments with your child with health problems?" They present a systematic approach, Love & Logic, to positive parenting, the goal of which is to enable a child to learn the health habits to care for him\herself. Moreover, the parenting in these family situations requires thoughtfulness and compassionae conversation about real issues as grief, death, medications, self-care as well as normal child rearing tasks.

Part One of the book focuses on the basic Love & Logic strategies that most parents face: self esteem, boundaries, problem solving, and how children learn. Part 2, Advanced Love & Logic applications discusses the realities of the medical challenges within the family and how to deal with them. Added bonuses at the back of the book are extra parenting tips, the authors' personal stories, and resources.

The book is thorough, well written and easy to read. You will appreciate the honest approach in dealing with the real world situations through loving strategies. I highly recommend it.

For additional resources for stressful family situations see Help Kids Cope with Stress & Trauma