
Low-Demand Parenting
Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with Your Uniquely Wired Child
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Narrated by:
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Lauryn Allman
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By:
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Amanda Diekman
Short, easily digestible guide for parents on how to reduce family conflict by dropping unnecessary demands from daily life to help neurodivergent families to thrive.
"Low-demand parenting requires radical acceptance. It says to the kid right in front of you, I see you, just as you are. - You are ok here. I love you right here."
Parent to neurodivergent children and autistic adult Amanda Diekman outlines a parenting approach that finally lowers the bar for the whole family, enabling the equilibrium of the home to be restored.
Low-demand parenting allows you to drop the demands and expectations that are making family life impossible and embrace the joyful freedom of living life with low demands. It can be a particularly effective approach for children with high anxiety levels including neurodivergent children. Amanda talks from experience and teaches you how to identify what the big, tiny and invisible demands are for your own child and gives you the step-by-step instructions on how to drop them.
Full of practical resources and scripts that are easy to implement in busy everyday life, this book is your flashlight and your map to parenting your uniquely wired child. It will not tell you where to go, but it will help you find your way so you and your family thrive.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Progressive positive future
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… no more shame, blame or judgement. She shares how to look at demands… and a low-demand parenting technique allows everyone’s stress to lessen.
Setting the traditional methods of parent/child interaction aside and realizing that there is another way and better way to have a relationship with your PDA child that is much more harmonious makes me want to cry… and at the same time hug Amanda Diekman for making this book available to us all.
To set aside the rewards and punishments philosophy that we grew up with and take a breath… and embrace the idea that your child is doing the best they can all the time… and for that matter… you are doing your best, as well creates a new playing field and an acceptance that rises above the good and bad thought system. This gives a way forward to practice loving kindness to ourselves and in turn to our uniquely wired PDA child. They need our trust and acceptance right where they are. Everything builds upon that. It is and it isn’t an easy first step… but it is a basic place to start.
I had a preview copy of the book and knew I needed the audio version because there was so much practical content that I will be relistening to this book again and again. This is a powerful guidebook that takes us from that first step and leads the path to finding a deep connection for your child to navigate their world feeling safe within the home and in turn outside of the home environment. It will be work and even hard work in the beginning. I can’t recommend this book enough.
I Could Go On and On
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HIGHLY recommend.
This book is the missing piece; it is deeply needed
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Wish I had this years ago
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The passion behind this parenting paradigm
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Such a great listen
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very insightful
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Parenting with understanding.
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