Parenting Children with Health Issues: Essential Tools, Tips, and Tactics for Raising Kids with Chronic Illness and Medical Conditions Book

2008 Gold Winner of the Mom's Choice Awards, 2008 Winner of the Indie Excellence Awards for Parenting and Family, and 2007 Finalist for Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year!

Special parenting skills are needed to raise kids with special needs. Whether your child struggles with allergies, asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, an eating disorder or any other health issue, you will find the essential parenting skills to help your child comply with medical requirements, cope well with health challenges, and live a hope-filled life. Get practical and compassionate answers as you learn effective ways to communicate about health issues with children of all ages.

Discover how to:
-Promote responsibility without nagging, lecturing or yelling.
-Answer your child's tough questions about medical issues.
-Empower your child to make wise self-care decisions.
-Avoid power struggles and other common parenting traps.
-Handle refusal to take medication and do medical treatments.
-Avoid the dangers of over-protection.
-Prepare your child for the transition to independence.
-Navigate sibling, family and couple relationship challenges.

This newest addition to Love and Logic's library takes familiar and much-loved Love and Logic concepts to new heights. Foster W. Cline MD is a well-known child psychiatrist and co-founder of Love and Logic. Lisa Greene is the mother of two children with cystic fibrosis. They have teamed up to provide parents and medical providers with a valuable new resource for families who have children with special needs.

About Love and Logic®
For over thirty years, The Love and Logic Institute has been teaching parents and educators worldwide how to create happy families and raise responsible kids. Love and Logic's powerful, yet easy-to-use, parenting techniques have been adapted for use with children who have special healthcare needs.