Lost at School
Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them
Ross W. Greene
ISBN: | 9781416572268 |
Publisher: | Scribner Book Company |
Published: | 31 October, 2008 |
Format: | Not Supplied By Publisher |
Language: | English |
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Lost at School
Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them
Ross W. Greene
From a distinguished clinician, pioneer in working with behaviorally challenging kids, and author of the acclaimed "The Explosive Child" comes a groundbreaking approach for understanding and helping these kids and transforming school discipline. Frequent visits to the principal's office. Detentions. Suspensions. Expulsions. These are the established tools of school discipline for kids who don't abide by school rules, have a hard time getting along with other kids, don't seem to respect authority, don't seem interested in learning, and are disrupting the learning of their classmates. But there's a big problem with these strategies: They are ineffective for most of the students to whom they are applied. It's time for a change in course. Here, Dr. Ross W. Greene presents an enlightened, clear-cut, and practical alternative. Relying on research from the neurosciences, Dr. Greene offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the difficulties of kids with behavioral challenges and explains why traditional discipline isn't effective at addressing these difficulties. Emphasizing the revolutionarily simple and positive notion that "kids do well if they can, " he persuasively argues that kids with behavioral challenges are not attention-seeking, manipulative, limit-testing, coercive, or unmotivated, but that they lack the skills to behave adaptively. And when adults recognize the true factors underlying difficult behavior and teach kids the skills in increments they can handle, t
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