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'How NOT to Murder Your ADHD Kid - Instead Learn to be Your Child's Own ADHD Coach!'
At the end of your tether with your ADHD kid and don’t know which way to turn?! Don’t panic! Help is at hand.
Are you desperate for help with your ADHD children, tearing your hair out trying to understand why they don’t react or behave like other kids? And not understanding why standard parenting techniques just aren’t working? This book will explain EVERYTHING!!
Therapist Sarah Templeton has specialised in ADHD since her own shock diagnosis at the age of 51!
“Sarah is an expert in all things ADHD. She works so successfully with ADHD clients because she understands the condition from the inside out” Dr Belda, ADHD Psychiatrist
Sarah is an English Qualified Counsellor, CBT Therapist and Coach. She wrote this book after working with hundreds of ADHD parents who have told her “If ONLY I’d known all this stuff while they were growing up”.
Now all this information IS in one place. In an easy to read format. Skip straight to whatever issue you’re struggling with right now! Space to make notes at the end of each chapter and real life examples, straight from Sarah‘s therapy room, of what works, what doesn’t and why.
“Sarah understands ADHD from the inside out and is passionate about turning kids lives around”. Dr Read, ADHD Psychiatrist
Sarah has worked in 4 English Prisons and Young Offender Units and been dismayed at the number of diagnosed but more often undiagnosed ADHD kids who end up behind bars.
She has witnessed for herself how unmanaged ADHD adolescents can fail catastrophically at school, find their excitement through risky behaviour often leading them down the wrong path.
Determined to reverse this situation, Sarah knows that it all starts back in the home – understanding and learning the very best ways to manage ADHD kids to bring out the best in them. Sarah has worked successfully with hundreds of ADHD teenagers – previous ‘teens in trouble’ are now training to be doctors, lawyers and professional footballers.
This comes about through them understanding their ADHD and knowing that they can use their drive, passion for winning and not liking being told what to do to achieve hugely in life.
In this book you will find out about the three different types of ADHD, discover ALL the ADHD traits – from the obvious to the obscure – most of which nobody told you about, whether or not you’re ADHD yourself and how to handle 30+ situations you will find yourself in at home.
Recommended by ADHD Psychiatrists, ADHD paediatricians, SEN teachers, ADHD parents and ADHD teenage clients.
Will help anyone coming into contact with ADHD kids including mums & dads, aunties & uncles, nans & grandads, teachers, social workers and other professionals working with ADHD kids.
Testimonials
Just brilliant – for me (ADHD, and Occupational therapist) and my probably ADHD kid
I listened to this on Audible and loved it – Sarah’s clear, straight talking style and ability to cut through to exactly what you need to know is excellent. I now will be buying the hard copy too as it’s such a good repository to dip into for guidance as things arise.
I’d brought it to help me with my son but actually found it vey enlightening and reassuring for me. I’m newly diagnosed and found this book just cemented things for me.
What I love about it:
Sarah clearly is an expert in her field – both with lived experience and through training and study and crucially, practice and with loads of ADHD folk and families. It’s a powerful combination.
Sarah gives the issue/ADHD trait, how it’s caused / why it happens and then gives useful solutions / ideas to support. Fab! And very logical!
It’s really pushing a respectful approach – an approach that validates and supports rather than berates / humiliates.
It fits with my gentle parenting approach apart from the reward system idea but that in itself has encouraged me to think and challenge my existing parenting beliefs – actually if my little one has ADHD then he may struggle with intrinsic motivation (as pushed by gentle parenting) and might well need more extrinsic support, eg rewards. I know I do far better chasing a reward / goal in life, and I can set my own but little dude doesn’t have those skills yet.
Thank you Sarah, wholeheartedly. A brilliant book and I look forward to your next books 🙂
Your book Sarah is revelationary and I have already bought 4 and recommended it in 6 other directions. It is amazingly helpful, engaging to read and is going to impact so many, many lives.
Bought this book as had seen it has been highly recommended by a lot of other parents. I firmly agree. Don’t believe there is another book like this on the market. Written by somebody with ADHD herself who doesn’t use fancy words, isn’t technical or medical but just tells you exactly how it is in an ADHD brain.
It’s helped me understand not only my children but obviously where they got the ADHD from! An awful lot of it resonated with me!
Definitely recommend if you want to know what ADHD is all about as well as understand your kids so much better.
It really makes you see ADHD in a different light and has helped me work with my children’s ADHD rather than battle against it. It’s also very funny which most books on parenting aren’t!
I just cried reading the references at the beginning of the book! Am in bits!!
We have just been given a prescription for my daughter, so the chapter on medication was so helpful.
This book is awesome and am recommending it to all the parents with ADHD kids.
I am still reading it and learning such a lot, it is so helpful.
Understanding ADHD has brought enormous peace to me as a mum and wife to an ADHD adult & two kids.
In recent months, my 9 year old son has been experiencing increased anxiety, emotional outbursts, over-reaction and complaining that he finds school boring and keeps getting told off by his teacher.
The GP suggested we find him a therapist and I found a local one. From the first session, she commented “she’d be happy to still see him but that she didn’t think she was right for him and that ADHD is something we should consider looking at”
At the same time, my husband who has been living with high-functioning anxiety (unbeknown to me) which in recent years has been getting worse, started to see the same therapist. She also mentioned ADHD to him. This was building to a perfect storm!
As an avid listener of audio books I happened to discover via my searches, the book ‘HOW NOT TO MURDER YOUR ADHD KID – INSTEAD LEARN TO BE YOUR CHILD’S OWN ADHD COACH‘.
I almost listened to the book in one sitting! It was truly profound as it described exactly another of my children! I have to say I did cry because, whilst it was a long series of lightbulb moments, I felt so guilty that my child had struggled through secondary school, that I had saddled him with a very flaky counsellor who really didn’t get him, and angry also that a school, who had picked up on his short-term memory problems, had never once suggested ADHD.
It is from this book, which I have listened to numerous times now, recommended to EVERYONE, including my 9 year old’s school, I found ‘Headstuff ADHD Therapy‘. I can say honestly, as a family, our experience with them has been life changing.
My husband is now diagnosed, starting medication and has Greg as his Coach, who he describes as “one of the most decent human beings he has ever met”.
My 9 year old has gone through an ADHD/ASD Pre- assessment with Kelly, which highlighted other possible neuro-diversities we’d not considered. We will soon be going to see a Paediatrician to get the formal diagnosis and hopefully start medication to help calm that overly busy but clever brain of his!
The pre-assessment with Kelly was very insightful and continued to trigger more light bulb moments. Kelly handled my son brilliantly, negotiating with him for his time and attention to get the information she needed. You can see why the Headstuff team having ADHD themselves is so important. The report back was detailed but easy to read and the school very appreciative of it. My son now knows he has this superpower, which he’s OK with although would prefer teleporting as his superpower!
My husband feels liberated and a lot calmer and happier. As for me, I am relieved and thrilled to have all this information, and empowered to help my perfect little family be the best versions of themselves.
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