• The Explosive Child

  • A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
  • By: Dr. Ross W. Greene
  • Narrated by: Dr. Ross W. Greene
  • Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,183 ratings)

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The Explosive Child

By: Dr. Ross W. Greene
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Dr. Ross Greene, a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the treatment of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids aren't attentionseeking, manipulative, or unmotivated, and their parents aren't passive, permissive disciplinarians. Rather, explosive kids are lacking some crucial skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, and they require a different approach to parenting.

The Explosive Child is the highly acclaimed, lifechanging parenting guide in which Dr. Greene first delineated the Collaborative Problem Solving approach. Dr. Greene explains why kids exhibit challenging behaviors, why traditional behavior management strategies may not be effective for many kids, and how to use Plan B to solve problems collaboratively and teach your child the skills he or she is lacking.

As the model has evolved over the years, so has The Explosive Child, and it is available here in an abridged and updated fourth edition narrated by Dr. Greene.

Throughout this compassionate, insightful, and practical book, Dr. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding their difficulties. He explains why traditional parenting and treatment often don't work with these children, and he describes what to do instead. Instead of relying on rewarding and punishing, Dr. Greene's Collaborative Problem Solving model promotes working with explosive children to solve the problems that precipitate explosive episodes, and teaching these kids the skills they lack.

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insightful

as a father of a son with adhd odd, I found this very informative and it is helping me readjust myself and see where I am lacking and failing. great read

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Halfway through and already love it

This is one of the best audiobooks I’ve ever heard. The author / narrator is so natural and logical. Can’t wait to put this in to action.

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Life changing…

This is incredible…just what I needed at the time I needed it. Hope this helps others,,. Hang in there

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simplicity

I really was surprised how with a simplistic, common sense approach. explosive behaviors can be extinguished. I look forward with hope that Plan B can resolve most of the issues in our home.

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Very Very Insightful and Helpful!

I love the way this was presented and that its application is not only pertaining to explosive kids but all of us in better communication and empathy for others regardless of age! Thank you so much!

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Great information but repetitive

It has great information but is SO repetitive. I think the author could have cut this down to about 1.5 hrs total. Maybe some people need the simplicity and repetition but it annoyed me. Nevertheless, the information is great and the approach seems valid so I’m going to try it.

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it didn't help me

not sure if I missed something but after finishing this book, I feel even more confused and powerless as how to help my son.

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Get the knowledge and think...

It's not hard to understand how to implement this method, but I have a few problems with chapter 9 the rest of the family. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink... You can lead a jackass, to knowledge but you can't make them think.... however you can always try. In my day the alternative to Plan A was Military School. I think Plan B is worth a try, it would help to have more fairness and understanding of an explosive child and their needs to be able to be successful in life.... and mercy for the rest of the family. This book is not just a bunch of Psyco babel, give it a try before you run out of time.
It takes understanding and time to rethink and retrain any kind of handicap, have patience and try.

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Great suggestions

I liked it and have been trying it. My child seems to explode all the time. Not just with daily triggers. She struggles to keep answering questions and get to the heart of the issue. Sometimes this helps, sometimes my questions make her explode worse. We will keep working

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Amazing

This was amazing, it hit home! Great book highly recommended for parents dealing with odd, adhd etc

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