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A review by fairislemeadow
All About ADHD: A Family Resource for Helping Your Child Succeed with ADHD by Thomas W. Phelan
1.0
Read about half and skimmed the rest; I didn't like the author's unnecessarily negative tone. Although he made a point to mention that ADHD is not the parents' fault, he still resorted to a lot of parent-blaming and parent-shaming language.
He'd frequently compare PI kids to C kids, referring to the former as sweet but flighty and the latter basically as terrors. I get how hard it is (my child has both ASD and ADHD-C); but again, his tone and language really rubbed me the wrong way. At one point he said "these children can be problems to themselves and others;" really?! There wasn't a single better way he could word that?
The part of the book that would have been most helpful, the behavior management section, was disappointingly brief and mostly referred the reader to his other book, 1-2-3 Magic. Also, the comorbidities section did not mention autism, which is a HUGE comorbidity with ADHD.
He'd frequently compare PI kids to C kids, referring to the former as sweet but flighty and the latter basically as terrors. I get how hard it is (my child has both ASD and ADHD-C); but again, his tone and language really rubbed me the wrong way. At one point he said "these children can be problems to themselves and others;" really?! There wasn't a single better way he could word that?
The part of the book that would have been most helpful, the behavior management section, was disappointingly brief and mostly referred the reader to his other book, 1-2-3 Magic. Also, the comorbidities section did not mention autism, which is a HUGE comorbidity with ADHD.