Addressing Add Naturally (ePub)

This is a practical, easy-to-use resource for parents who want to help their childrenimprove attention, focus, self-discipline, and patience. Written by the worldsleading authority on complementary medicine for children, it provides a solidscientific basis for using natural therapies to help your child succeed. The charts andworksheets offer you tools to realize your childs strengths, turning stumbling blocks intostepping stones to success. The first chapters introduce basic concepts about ADHD and ADD, identifyingcommon family goals for improving their childs attention and self-discipline. It framesthese goals as skills to be mastered, building on the childs existing strengths. The nextchapters focus on the five fundamental strategies to achieve success (healthy habits in ahealthy habitat). These strategies include exercise, sleep, nutrition, managing behavior,emotions, and stress, positive communication, and optimal environment. The nextchapters provide practical tools for translating these fundamentals into habits and trackingsuccess. Later chapters cover additional strategies such as pills (medications, vitamins,and herbs), working with schools, counseling, biofeedback, massage, and acupuncture. The last chapter is a handy summary. The book includes links to helpful resources andprovides over 200 references to recent scientific studies to support its recommendations.