Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and More

Guide kids of all ages on their path to independence and success!  The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids is a wake-up call, a clear path for action, and a message of inspiration, providing a reality-based recipe for raising complex kids, while not making yourself (or your family) crazy in the process. Parenting expert Elaine Taylor-Klaus of ImpactADHD.com walks you through a proven coach-approach method that provides essential tools for clearly setting effective and realistic expectations for your kids to eliminate daily battles and constant upheaval.   It doesn’t matter if your child has ADHD, anxiety, learning disabilities, autism, depression, ODD, or attachment issues—complex kids struggle with some aspects of life and learning, and they need your understanding and support. A coach-approach will help you communicate, collaborate, and guide kids of all ages on a path to independence and success. Here are some of the challenges, coach-approach messages, and strategies you will learn:   Challenge: “This Kid Is Really Smart, but . . .”Coach’s Reframe: Parent from Inspiration --> Strategy: Shed the ShouldsChallenge: “I’ve Tried Everything, but Nothing Works” Coach’s Reframe: Start with You  --> Strategy: Relationships over TasksChallenge: “My Kid’s Just Not Motivated” Coach’s Reframe: Executive Function --> Strategy: Use MotivationChallenge: “Where Do I Start?” Coach’s Reframe: Take a Marathon View --> Strategy: Take Aim With The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and More, your family can rediscover peace…and thrive.

"An invaluable resource for parents (and hopefully for those working with them), this book is certainly now on the top of my "must read" list for all the parents (and teachers and mental health specialists) I work with. I am recommending it every chance I get."--Jerome Schultz, Ph.D. Clinical Neuropsychologist, Harvard Medical School Author: Nowhere to Hide, "Elaine Taylor-Klaus is the parent coach you can trust. Writing from her own life experience as a parent of three complex kids, the work of ImpactADHD.com, and the stories of the parents she has coached, Elaine clearly has the lived-through wisdom and compassion. This book is smart, engaging, and written for busy (and sometimes chaotic) families. It teaches parents to use reflection and self-care to connect with the radical acceptance and the "bring it on" attitude needed to take on the parenting challenges. At it's heart, this is also a call to understand both the children and the parents, grow connection within family, and ultimately celebrate the journey."--Lidia Zylowska MD, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Dept of Psychiatry, "With wit and wisdom that can only come from experience, Elaine Taylor-Klaus reminds fellow parents that they really can make a difference in the lives of their complex kids, and she guides them to do just that."--Susan Stiffelman, MFT, author of Parenting Without Power Struggles and Parenting With Presence, An essential resource for any parent! For parents raising children with ADHD or other learning differences, this book is invaluable. Taylor-Klaus gives you a skill-based road map to manage yourself and be a better resource for your child.--Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees & Wannabes, Deftly written with humor and compassion, this book offers a framework for developing a collaborative approach in working with your child, opportunities for self-reflection, and action-oriented solutions to some of life's most difficult parent-child issues. This book is a life saver for many struggling parents who may feel they are barely holding on.--Mary Anne Richey, M.Ed., co-author of Raising Boys with ADHD

Elaine Taylor-Klaus is the founder and CEO of ImpactADHD.com, where she teaches thousands of parents, educators, and other professionals dynamic strategies for parenting and educating children with complex issues. She is a former parenting advisor to the American Academy of Pediatrics, a former national Board member of CHADD (Children and Adults with AD/HD), and an internationally recognized parenting coach, educator, and speaker. She is a mother of three complex kids and the author of Parenting ADHD Now!