Books like The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

AMazINGThis book really did change my life (and the life of my daughter). Before I read this book I thought that my daughter and I would never really get along. I feared for her safety almost all the time. I worried she would say the wrong thing to the wrong person and they would hurt her. I didn't have any idea what ODD was before I read this. However, when I read this book all I could thing was "This is my daughter!" I have used many of the techniques spelled out in this book to astonishing effect. It also helped me to better understand how the world appears from her presective and gave me insight into her behavior and motivation. It was also very validating and reassuring. It helped me to see I wasn't a failure at parenting, but that traditional parenting skills (the kind I was taught) don't work with ODD kids. Often those traditional skills made behavior WORSE. This is a great book and I would happily buy it for any parent struggling with a defiant child.