Ferrari Brains with Bicycle Brakes: The Ultimate Parents' Guide to ADHD

Description

A practical guide for parents of children with attention deficit disorders, offering useful tools for healthy and correct management of the disorder.

As parents of children with attention deficit disorders (ADD or ADHD), you are no doubt already familiar with the daily struggles that accompany these disorders: difficulty in educational settings, a sense of failure, low self-esteem, social struggles, and much more.

Along with the difficulties faced by your child, you, the parents, find yourselves in a new and unfamiliar territory, confronted with considerable challenges.

Erez Figlash is an experienced personal coach for children and teens with attention deficit disorders, learning disabilities, and functional and adjustment disorders. Ferrari Brain with Bicycle Brakes is a direct product of Figlash’s work with thousands of patients over the last two decades.

This book is the ultimate guide for any parent wishing to better understand how every facet of their child’s life is affected and influenced by their attention deficit disorder. It offers practical tools for helping parents to minimize these effects and provides answers for important questions such as the following:

• Which medical and alternative treatments are available today?
• How and when should children be diagnosed?
• What are the risks of neglecting treatment of attention deficit disorders?
• What must I do to keep my child on the right track?

Figlash writes in simple, easy to understand language, and his book’s short chapters make it perfect for parents who suffer themselves from attention disorders and hope to learn how to better lead a life in the shadow of ADD or ADHD.