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A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting
Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Amazon.com
Flexibility and tolerance are learned skills, as any parent
knows if they've seen an irascible 2-year-old grow into a
pleasant, thoughtful, and considerate older child. Unfortunately,
for reasons that are poorly understood, a few children don't "get"
this part of socialization. Years after toddler tantrums should
have become an unpleasant memory, a few unlucky parents find
themselves battling with sudden, inexplicable, disturbingly
violent rages--along with crushing guilt about what they "did
wrong." Medical experts haven't helped much: the flurry of
acronyms and labels (Tourette's, ADHD, ADD, etc.) seems to proffer
new discoveries about the causes of such explosions, when in fact
the only new development is alternative vocabulary to describe the
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