How Not to Murder Your ADHD Kid

Instead Learn How to Be Your Child's Own ADHD Coach

By: Sarah Templeton

Narrated by: Sarah Templeton

Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Desperate for help with your ADHD children? Tearing your hair out trying to understand why they don’t react or behave like other kids? Want to do the right thing - but don't have a clue what that is? Help is at hand!

Sarah Templeton, a therapist with ADHD herself, has written this book after working with hundreds of ADHD parents from all over the UK who have told her, ‘’if only I’d known all this stuff while they were growing up’’.

Well, now all this information is in one place - in an easy-to-understand format. Skip straight to whatever issue you’re struggling with right now. The book uses real-life examples of what worked, what didn’t, and why.

Recommended by ADHD psychiatrists, ADHD pediatricians, SEN teachers, ADHD parents, and ADHD teenage clients. For anyone coming into contact with ADHD kids, including moms, dads, brothers, sisters, nans, grandads, uncles and aunts, and professionals.

Find out where your child’s ADHD came from. Find out about the three different kinds of ADHD. Discover the 30 or more ADHD traits nobody ever told you about. Learn how to best handle situations you may well find yourself in with your ADHD child. Hear real-life examples where therapeutic strategies and different ways of doing things have turned ADHD houses of horror into oases of calm and serenity.

Sarah Templeton is an English counselor, CBT therapist, and coach who has specialized in ADHD since her own shock diagnosis at the age of 51. Sarah has worked in four English prisons and been dismayed at the number of diagnosed, but more often undiagnosed, ADHD kids who end up in prison.

She witnessed for herself how unmanaged ADHD adolescents can fail catastrophically at school, often leading them to experiment with drugs or alcohol and fall so easily into a life of addiction, unemployment, homelessness, and crime.

©2021 Sarah Templeton (P)2021 Sarah Templeton

The most insightful ADHD book I’ve read

I cannot recommend this book highly enough! This author understands ADHD more fully than most any expert out there. Not only did she provide insight at every turn, but she was funny and truly hopeful in the process. I have recommended this book to many others, especially in audible format because her fabulous British accent. I was sorry to hear “The End” and wished I could figure out how to enlist her as my therapist!

One of the best books on ADHD I've read

Ive read 10+ books on ADHD to try and understand my child and this is the best one by far. First of all, she does a fantastic job weaving together the science of what is going on in their brain and body, with what it may look like in behavior. Second, it is entertaining which made me more engaged. I loved how each chapter explained a different trait and clearly defined what to do and not to do. There were many aha! moments for me in reading this and it has helped me understand my child's behavior better. highly recommend.

You need this book!

If you have a child in your life that you care about who might have ADHD don’t hesitate and buy this book. It’s so good and useful that I bought the paperback version as well.

Essential addition to the ADHD library

Although Ms. Templeton states that the best and essential ADHD treatise is "Driven to Distraction", I respectfully disagree. She has produced an equally important addition to not only understanding a child's ADHD, but...to understanding our "inner child" as well. She succinctly explains the various aspects of the condition and offers excellent suggestions. And a delightful narrator too.. However, as much as I appreciate her...the cartoon on the cover has to go! She-and the "representative" child- deserve better.

Some Great Info

So, I didn't give 5 stars overall because not all the information in here is representative of the broad spectrum that is ADHD. The author has her experience primarily with juvenile offenders and this book is skewed towards that and some parents might be terrified that their darling child will become one as well. Trust me not all kids/people with ADHD lie, steal, have violent outbursts...

I am a mom of an ADHD kid that is significantly impacted. He is honest to a fault and doesn't have violent outbursts. And he's the oldest so that means younger siblings. When he gets mad he says "Ugh! I'm so mad right I need to go sit down in my room!"

So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE know that this is a spectrum and not all people that have it exhibit these negative and frightening things. Also, in the USA the pediatrician is able to treat ADHD and you don't have to go through a therapist. Indeed, just because someone has ADHD doesn't mean they need therapy.

If your kiddo, someone you love, care for, or even yourself has ADHD this book is good as a resource for some tips and tricks. Some of which I have begun to use, and she does give some great insight and reminders. But don't make this your only resource.

Totally agree that medication is highly beneficial and if properly medicated early on then your baby is less likely to get into the kind of trouble prevalent in this book.

Love it!

Very informative! I was reading it for a child I work with only to realize I probably have adhd too!

Insightful

This book is now on my top parenting book list. It has been extremely insightful and has recommendations on things to watch out for as the child ages.

Cannot recommend it enough

Really informative, easy to digest, very practical. I wish I had come across that book much earlier in my parenting journey. Thank you to the author for putting herself out there the way she does to help the Neuro-divergent community.

Every person with ADHD should read this

I picked up this book as an educator and mom who has always struggled with ADHD in hopes of understanding my students and myself better and learning new strategies to help. Awesome resource! I highly recommend and I will be buying this for my husband and sister as well!

Great book

after listening to a couple of other ADHD kid books, I stumbled on this one. The content is excellent. Even if you are in the US, there is very little that doesn't apply. The narration is great and the personal humor comes across well in the way only an author can express.

The book gave me a great perspective on my children through the tidbits and observations of experience vs other books that are more textbooky.