The toddler whose tantrums scare all the other kids on the playground . . . The three-year-old who ignores all his toys but seems passionately attached to the vacuum cleaner . . . The fourth-grade girl who never gets invited to a birthday party because classmates think she’s “weird” . . . The geek who is terrific at math, but is failing every other subject. Quirky children are different from other kids in ways that they–and their parents and teachers–have a hard time understanding or explaining. Straddling the line between eccentric and developmentally impaired, quirky children present challenges that standard parenting books fail to address. Now, in Quirky Kids, nationally known writer/pediatrician Perri Klass and her colleague Eileen Costello, a seasoned pediatrician with a special interest in child development, finally provide the expert guidance and in-depth research that families with quirky children so desperately need. A generation ago, such children were called odd ducks or worse. But nowadays, they are often assigned medical, psychiatric, or neurological diagnoses. The diagnoses often overlap or shift, but the labels can be frightening. Klass and Costello illuminate the confusing list of terms applied to quirky children these days–nonverbal learning disability, sensory integration disorder, obsessive-compulsive behavior, autistic spectrum disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, Asperger’s syndrome–and explain how to assess what exactly each diagnosis means and how to use it to help a child most effectively. Quirky Kids takes you through the stages of a child’s life, helping to smooth the way at home, at school, even on the playground. How do you make it through mealtime, when emotions often erupt? How do you help the child’s siblings understand what’s going on? Is it better to “mainstream” the child or seek a special education program? How can you make a school more welcoming and flexible for a quirky child? How do you help your child deal with social exclusion, name-calling, and bullying? Choosing the right therapy for quirky children is especially difficult, because their problems fall outside traditional medical categories. Coping strategies might include martial arts or horseback riding, or speech and occupational therapies. Klass and Costello cover all the options, as well as offer a thorough consideration of the available medications, how they work, and whether medication is the best choice for your child. Drs. Klass and Costello firmly believe that the ideal way to help our quirky kids is to understand and embrace the qualities that make them exceptionally interesting and lovable. Written with upbeat clarity and informed insight, their book is a comprehensive guide to loving, living with, and enjoying these wonderful if challenging children.

Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't Fit In- When to Worry and When Not to Worry

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Perri Klass

Eileen Costello

Psychology & Counseling

Ballantine Books

Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen (Library Edition)

[LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.]  [Read by Anna Fields and Carrington MacDuffie] Oh no, I'm turning into my mother! Every woman is familiar with the poignant, funny, baffling, or horrifying echoes that resonate at that moment when she first hears her own mother's voice coming out of her mouth. But this moment of recognition is more than ironic: it's at the root of how we see ourselves, and how we plot and follow the arc that goes from childhood to motherhood. - - Together, Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, cover more than seven decades of daughterhood and motherhood. And although they grew up in dramatically different circumstances, they find that their lives have been shaped in strangely similar ways. In ''Every Mother is a Daughter'', Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story, looking honestly at their own lives and at each other, with different perspectives, unique voices, and powerful insight, in the first co-written mother-daughter memoir.

Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen (LIBRARY EDITION)

Parenting & Relationships

Sheila Solomon Klass

Family Relationships

Blackstone Audio

Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:David Mizner Your Swim Daisy's eating with Jonathan's two girls, using the cooler as a table, and even Sammy joins. Jo laughs at something Frances said. Our families are falling in love. Miranda July Interview by David Naimon I thought it would be the hardest thing I'd ever done, because everyone says that and people are always not finishing their novels. It is hard, but it's a certain kind of hard that is comfortable for me. It's all on me. It's all an internal, private process. Zain Saeed The Earth Is a Stingy Bastard He said something back about him having a name, bitch, and about this not being funny, gaandu, and other things I did not understand because he switched to Memoni as he had a tendency to do when he was properly mad, like, bad mad. Stefanie Freele Everything But What We Need The cycle interrupted itself, began, and washed his dishes again. And again, and again, and again, and again, and again. For approximately seven weeks, the now-broken dishwasher washed that same blue-glass lasagna pan over and over. Ezekiel N. Finkelstein Clayton and the Apocalypse: Scenes from an Earlier Life When he jumped it felt like forever, at the same time like no time immediately he was the soberest he had ever been he was surprised. He realized he'd made a mistake: he was falling. He'd always thought of it as jumping. Taiyaba Husain How You Respond to an Emergency It comes as a surprise to you both when your father steps in to parent you. He is late but not too late. Jeffrey Rotter In a Lake House She had so many interesting things to say about plumbing and celery fiber, subjects about which I know next to nothing. New ideas energize me. Gabe Herron Suzette There's some kind of magic that happens in places like that, where fathers and sons take their rests together after the work. Their arms made heavy and dumb by it, but their minds made clear and calm. Lara Markstein The American When I was eighteen, I lived in a small shared flat with an American and a German on an alley off Nguyen Thi Minh Khai in Saigon. Anthony DeCasper Redshift I've gone from near death to cancer remission, to cancer with a re-mission of death twice before. I just don't have any fuel left in my reserves for this next battle. S.P. MacIntyre Pinch I consider myself a pretty unflappable guy, but with my heart batting against the inside of my chest like a moth in a killing jar and the cocaine giving everything a furious urgency, I'm surprised that the only thing I could muster was, "What are you doing?" Theodora ZiolkowskiWe Thank You for Your Cleanliness So I'm baking cookies for Josh and his friend Kyle when it starts ringing, and think it must be Aunt Louise or a telemarketer, because only Aunt Louise and telemarketers have this number. Perri KlassHeart Attack on a PlateGood night, they say, each in turn, and tonight she says back, each time, heartbreakingly obedient, Good night, good night, good night. Caleb Leisure Atlantic on SundayAnd how were they supposed to behave? There was no loudspeaker instruction or police ordinance or Hollywood blueprint to follow. No established etiquette. There was only the ancient instruction of impulse.

Glimmer Train Stories, #98

Miranda July

David Mizner

Zain Saeed

Ezekiel N. Finkelstein

Taiyaba Husain

Jeffrey Rotter

Gabe Herron

Lara Markstein

Anthony DeCasper

S.P. MacIntyre

Theodora Ziolkowski

Caleb Leisure

Stefanie Freele

Glimmer Train Press, Inc.

Quirky Kids

Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)

Ellen Costello

American Academy of Pediatrics+

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