“One of the finest and most helpful books we have ever read .
. . should be the first stop for any parent trying to help a
struggling child.”
—Brock Eide and Fernette Eide, authors of The Mislabeled Child
Finally, a positive approach designed around your child’s traits
and needs
Many children do things that seem odd, troubling, or excessive
at some point in their development, and our culture is quick to
attach a label to every child who’s “outside the box” or hard to
raise. Again and again, studies document the explosion in the
number of children receiving psychiatric diagnoses for being
intense, moody, or offbeat.
In this groundbreaking book, childhood development expert
Barbara Probst provides a new framework for identifying the
specific traits—like rigidity, curiosity, perfectionism, intensity,
slow tempo, a need for novelty, or a need for control—that lie at
the root of your child’s challenging behavior.
When the Labels Don’t Fit features a questionnaire for profiling
your child’s temperament and more than sixty strategies for dealing
with specific kinds of behavior. It’s the first comprehensive
system that’s not based on figuring out what’s “wrong” with your
child, but on helping you tap into your child’s strengths so you
can manage, nurture, and enjoy his or her essential“One of the
finest and most helpful books we have ever read . . . should be the
first stop for any parent trying to help a struggling child.”
—Brock Eide and Fernette Eide, authors of The Mislabeled
Child
Finally, a positive approach designed around your child’s traits
and needs
Many children do things that seem odd, troubling, or excessive at
some point in their development, and our culture is quick to attach
a label to every child who’s “outside the box” or hard to raise.
Again and again, studies document the explosion in the number of
children receiving psychiatric diagnoses for being intense, moody,
or offbeat.
In this groundbreaking book, childhood development expert Barbara
Probst provides a new framework for identifying the specific
traits—like rigidity, curiosity, perfectionism, intensity, slow
tempo, a need for novelty, or a need for control—that lie at the
root of your child’s challenging behavior.
When the Labels Don’t Fit features a questionnaire for profiling
your child’s temperament and more than sixty strategies for dealing
with specific kinds of behavior. It’s the first comprehensive
system that’s not based on figuring out what’s “wrong” with your
child, but on helping you tap into your child’s strengths so you
can manage, nurture, and enjoy his or her essential nature.