Parenting Children with Health Issues: Essential Tools, Tips and Tactics for Raising Kids with Chronic Illness, Medical Conditions and Special Healthcare Needs by Foster Cline, MD and Lisa Greene

Publication Info: June 30, 2007 for $24.95

Currently available through Love and Logic at www.loveandlogic.com for $24.95 Available to order now at discounted pricing to ship on June 30th at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com

ISBN 10: 1-930429-89-4 and ISBN 13: 978-1-930429-89-5

Book Description:
This book provides help for parents who are raising special needs children with health- related issues. Parents, caregivers and professionals will learn essential techniques to help children comply with medical/dietary requirements, take responsibility for healthcare and develop good coping skills. Get practical and compassionate answers to tough questions as well as effective ways to communicate about medical issues with children of all ages.

Learn how to:
- Encourage children to love life despite health challenges.
- Handle refusal to take medication and do medical treatments.
- Understand and respond to ill children’s special emotional needs.
- Avoid power struggles and other common parenting traps.
- Facilitate children’s concern for their illness without frightening them.
- Promote healthcare responsibility without nagging or lecturing.
- Enable children to make good self-care decisions about their bodies.
- Communicate with children about their medical issues in ways they’ll understand.
- Separate “I can’t” from “I won’t” and respond accordingly.
- Navigate sibling, family and couple relationship issues.
- Identify normal emotional responses to a child’s diagnosis.
- Cope with the demands placed upon caregivers in practical ways.