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Parenting Rewired: How to Raise a Happy Autistic Child in a Very Neurotypical World
Parenting an autistic child as a neurotypical adult can be challenging but it doesn't need to feel impossible! This essential guide will help you reshape your approaches to parenting.
Packed with lived-experience insight and easy-to-follow advice this transformative guide will change how you view the behaviour of your autistic child and challenge you to rewire your thinking to see the world through the autistic lens. This guide challenges the common misunderstandings surrounding autistic behaviour, such as emotional dysregulation in public settings or meltdowns at mealtimes. Parents and carers will be given a deeper understanding of why your child behaves the way they do and how a change in your parenting approach is key to relax and resolve difficult situations. This book gives you all the tools you need to not only parent your autistic child, but also to understand them.
With tips on how to support and interpret emotional dysregulation, meltdowns, food aversions and much more, you will learn how to see the world through your child's eyes, using communication techniques that will help you and your child thrive.
Packed with lived-experience insight and easy-to-follow advice this transformative guide will change how you view the behaviour of your autistic child and challenge you to rewire your thinking to see the world through the autistic lens. This guide challenges the common misunderstandings surrounding autistic behaviour, such as emotional dysregulation in public settings or meltdowns at mealtimes. Parents and carers will be given a deeper understanding of why your child behaves the way they do and how a change in your parenting approach is key to relax and resolve difficult situations. This book gives you all the tools you need to not only parent your autistic child, but also to understand them.
With tips on how to support and interpret emotional dysregulation, meltdowns, food aversions and much more, you will learn how to see the world through your child's eyes, using communication techniques that will help you and your child thrive.
224 pages, Paperback
Published August 18, 2022
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August 22, 2022
I’ve been waiting for this to be published since I pre-ordered it months ago, as you only have to follow The Autism and ADHD Diaries blog to realise exactly how good it’s going to be.
And I was right, it’s brilliant.
The philosophy of working to understand how your autistic child’s brain works and why it creates the behaviour patterns it does, then amending your own behaviour to work with your child according to THEIR operating system rather than yours, is superbly explained.
The pure practicality of this book is light years ahead of anything else I’ve read about bringing up an autistic child.
And then there’s the trump card, the way it’s written and communicated by Punter and Chaney. It’s so easy to read, you can read it in one sitting or just dip in and out at will. The use of language is just so clever, it’s like talking to your best friend.
These guys aren’t academics, they’re smart people who are all about what action makes the biggest difference and why.
I can’t tell you how much, as a parent and grandparent, I need this help.
If you have anything to do with raising or developing an autistic child, be that as a parent, teacher, carer or health professional, you’ve just got to read this, it’s already changing my life as I watch the suggestions work and now I also know why.
And I was right, it’s brilliant.
The philosophy of working to understand how your autistic child’s brain works and why it creates the behaviour patterns it does, then amending your own behaviour to work with your child according to THEIR operating system rather than yours, is superbly explained.
The pure practicality of this book is light years ahead of anything else I’ve read about bringing up an autistic child.
And then there’s the trump card, the way it’s written and communicated by Punter and Chaney. It’s so easy to read, you can read it in one sitting or just dip in and out at will. The use of language is just so clever, it’s like talking to your best friend.
These guys aren’t academics, they’re smart people who are all about what action makes the biggest difference and why.
I can’t tell you how much, as a parent and grandparent, I need this help.
If you have anything to do with raising or developing an autistic child, be that as a parent, teacher, carer or health professional, you’ve just got to read this, it’s already changing my life as I watch the suggestions work and now I also know why.
January 3, 2024
This book would be a great starting resource for any new or expecting parent of an autistic child, or anyone suspecting their newborn may be, or is on the other to diagnosis as autistic. Even those not autistic, it still serves a great purpose in educating on the needs and considerations that those living with disability such as autism deserve. While this guide will best serve parents of young autistic children still learning of their needs, or parents of aging autistic youth with greater or more severe needs profiles or with multiple comorbidities, I still found a few sections to be revelatory to me as an early 30s adult suspecting my own autistic traits, and on the road to potential diagnosis of either Autism, ADHD, or more likely a mix of the two. Hearing these accounts and experience-based suggestions from two parents who themselves are Autistic and/or ADHD (AuDHD) is a needed voice in this category of limited experience-based research when it comes to an empathetic and caring approach to respectful treatment and community. Honestly no notes. I am not directly the target audience of this book, but I can see its importance nonetheless.
January 11, 2023
So easy to read. I need another book by them to cover an older age range as this really sits from toddler diagnosis to about 5. Still the intro to what autism is and is not, best I have read so far.
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