Be always ready.Not always on edge.
When your son melts down, you don't need patience. You need a plan. I'll show you how to make one in this free pdf.
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On every page I was ... wanting to take notes for myself — as a therapist to be sure, but as a father as well. I hope your copy of this book will become as marked up and beloved as mine.
Challenging Boys is based on the powerful idea that the pathway to success is understanding yourself and understanding your son. Tim Davis takes readers beyond blame, beyond simplistic solutions, and beyond hopelessness, to a place of hope and the possibility of deep change.
Tim Davis will help you with techniques and strategies for maintaining your calm. The wisdom in this book would be helpful to most parents of any child.
With compelling vignettes and useful exercises, this book is essential reading for parents seeking to rediscover joy in their relationship with their growing boy.
Five things you'll learn in Challenging Boys
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Why challenging behavior is a lack of skillfulness, not willfulness
And why advice like "set firm limits" or "don't negotiate with terrorists" makes things worse for boys like yours, no matter how many times you've been told otherwise.
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The fire-academy method for staying calm
How to plan and prepare for meltdowns the way firefighters plan for fires, so you'll know what to do the next time one ignites.
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The two real roots of challenging behavior
Temperament and executive functioning: you'll understand what each one is, how to spot them in your son, and what to do about each.
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Co-regulation before self-regulation
How to apply this single most underused parenting skill.
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Discipline that actually works
Which consequences, rewards, and coaching moves help, and which ones surprisingly make defiance worse.
About the author
Child psychologist. Former firefighter. Father of three.
Dr. Tim Davis is a child psychologist and former volunteer firefighter. This unusual combination is the heart of how he works with parents of challenging boys.
Over thirty years of clinical practice, he noticed that the same discipline that lets firefighters stay calm at a fire scene — planning before the alarm, training for the predictable, and not trying to figure things out in the heat of the moment — works when your son is melting down. Like a firefighter you'll be always ready, not always on edge.
Dr. Davis holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for twenty-five years, where he was a fellow at the landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development. He maintains a clinical practice in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
The next meltdown is coming. Be ready.
Three pages. Fifteen minutes to fill out. A free worksheet from Dr. Tim Davis you can use the next time he melts down.
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