The Elephant in the Playroom: Ordinary Parents Write Intimately and Honestly about the Extraordinary Highs and Heartbreaking Lows of Raising Kids wi Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition
by Denise Brodey
Candid, passionate, personal, and heartbreakingly funny, a view from within the whirlwind of parenting a child with special needs
Three years ago, magazine editor Denise Brodey's precocious four-year-old son, Toby, was diagnosed with a combination of sensory integration dysfunction and childhood depression. As she struggled to make sense of her new, often chaotic, often lonely world, what she found comforted her most was talking with other harried, hopeful, and insightful parents of kids with special needs, learning how they coped with the feelings they encountered throughout the day.
In The Elephant in the Playroom, moms and dads from across the country write intimately and honestly about the joyful highs and disordered lows of raising children who are 'not quite normal.' Laying bare the emotional, medical, and social challenges they face, their stories address issues ranging from if and when to medicate a child, to how to get a child who is overly sensitive to the texture of food to eat lunch. Eloquent and honest, the voices in this collection will provide solace and support for the millions of parents whose kids struggle with ADD, ADHD, sensory disorders, childhood depression, Asperger's syndrome, and autism as well as the many kids who fall between diagnoses.
Offering readers comfort, community, and much-needed perspective, The Elephant in the Playroom is sure to become essential reading for parents of special needs kids.
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- Title The Elephant in the Playroom: Ordinary Parents Write Intimately and Honestly about the Extraordinary Highs and Heartbreaking Lows of Raising Kids wi
- Author Denise Brodey
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 235
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hudson Street Press
- Date April 19, 2007
- ISBN 9781594630354 / 1594630356
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.84 x 0.99 in (21.64 x 14.83 x 2.51 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Parenting, Children with disabilities - Family
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006039393
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.874
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