Shut up about Your Perfect Kid A Survival Guide for Ordinary Parents of Special Children

Name: Shut up about Your Perfect Kid A Survival Guide for Ordinary Parents of Special Children
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ISBN: 9780307587480

ISBN-10: 0307587487

ISBN-13: 9780307587480

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Authors: Gina Gallagher, Patricia Konjoian

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AUTHORSrs" DISCLAIMER: We are not in any way experts on parenting children with disabilities. Our goal is simply to share strategies that have worked for each of us in the event it may help those in a similar situation. If yours"re different from us (i.e., you are bright or of the perfect persuasion), we advise you not to try the following at home. On a "perfection-preoccupied planet," sisters Gina and Patty dare to speak up about the frustrations, sadness, and stigmas they face as parents of children with disabilities (one with Aspergerrs"s syndrome, the other with bipolar disorder). This refreshingly frank book, which will alternately make you want to tear your hair out and laugh your…

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 8/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.03" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Foreword


Imperfect Authors' Note


Introduction: The Movement of Imperfection



The Loss of a Perfect Dream



Snowflakes and Disney World



Straight Hair to Straightjackets



From Tissues to Facing the Issues



Coming Out of Our Messy Closets



I Could Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You



Sharing Imperfect Family Secrets



Mommy's Got Some 'Splaining to Do



Back to School Blues



Team Meetings and Other Lessons in Dealing with the School



The Individual Education Plan-a Blueprint for Confusion



Reality (or the School) Calling



A New School of Thought



Living the (Imperfect) Life



Anything Your Kid Can Do, Mine Can Do Differently



Coping Techniques and Therapy



A Different Way of Thinking



Field of (Day) Dreaming



Lessons in Love and Imperfection



Change Will Do You Good



Loving the Reality


Glossary


Resources


Acknowledgments


Index