“Coping with adversity lays the foundation for almost all true greatness. With a few simple tools, parents can encourage their special needs children to become the heroes they are destined to be.” - Foster W. Cline, MD
Special parenting skills are needed to raise kids with special needs. Parents struggle with difficult questions and unique frustrations:
- How do I empower my child to live up to his or her full potential?
- When my child misbehaves, is it because of the illness?
- How do I talk with my child about his or her medical condition?
- When and how do I turn over self-care responsibilities to my child?
- How do I help my child cope with the medical requirements?
Here, you’ll find the answers. Whether your child has allergies, asthma, diabetes, cancer, cystic fibrosis, dietary limitations, weight problems or any other health issue, you'll discover how to:
- Promote responsibility without nagging, lecturing or yelling
- Effectively respond to difficult questions about medical issues
- Help your child develop good "coping with adversity" skills - Handle refusal to take medication or do medical treatments - Avoid power struggles and other common parenting traps
- Facilitate your child's transition to independence - Empower your child to make wise self-care decisions - Address your child’s special emotional needs - Reduce frustration, worry and fear - Coach your child to handleinteractions with peers - Navigate sibling, family and couple relationship issues
- Encourage your child to love life despite health challenges
Parenting Children with Health Issues is a groundbreaking new program which helps parents and professionals address the behavioral and emotional aspects of raising children with medical conditions, chronic illness and special healthcare needs.
As the co-creator of Love and Logic, Foster Cline MD has adapted Love and Logic's powerful- yet simple- parenting tools to the special challenges of raising special needs children. Resources include an award- winning book, audio, video, live and web-based support. "Few books fall into the Great Work category. This is one of them. This book is a beacon of insight and guidance for parents in the most challenging of parenting circumstances."Frazier H. King, M.D., Board Certified Family Practitioner
The award-winning book Parenting Children with Health Issues is available at Love and Logic, Amazon, other online booksellers, and local bookstores.
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Authors Foster W. Cline MD, child psychiatrist and Lisa C. Greene, mother of two children with cystic fibrosis (CF), have teamed up to bring you practical and essential information as you raise your child with special needs.
Pictured here, they attend a CF fundraiser with spouses Hermie Cline and Carl Greene.
"One of my mantras for many years has been, 'Don’t disable a child with disabilities!' As this book points out so clearly, these children, even more so than children who are not obviously medically impacted, need to be confident, competent, respectful, responsible, and, ultimately, independent." -Tracy L. Trotter, MD, FAAP, Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine
Our mission is to teach families the skills to raise special needs kids who are "confident, competent, respectful, responsible, and, ultimately, independent."
