You are bidding on a copy of the book "The Explosive Child" by Ross W. Greene, PH.D. and a tutoring session with Beth Gallock of Whole Minds Whole Hearts. Beth's service includes a 30 minute consultation about your child and the best way to meet his or her needs as well as a 45 minute tutoring session for you child.

About Whole Minds Whole Hearts and Beth Gallack:

Beth is a CA multiple subject credentialed teacher and she offers compassionate educational assistance strongly formed by over three years of study on brain function challenges. She works with children navigating AD/HD, executive function deficits, and cognitive inflexibility issues. She uses a variety of organizational strategies to address study needs at school and in the home. Through her experience and training, Beth has come to understand that children do well when they are properly assisted and she strives to provide an integrated educational approach that treats children as whole people, who are more than a list of their challenges. She provides help in all content areas including math, science, and language arts. Currently, Beth works with children in grades ranging from 2nd through 7th, many of whom struggle with various processing challenges and learning disabilities. She tutors out of her home, in the co-housing community of Two Acre Wood.

Flexibility and tolerance are learned skills, as any parent knows if they've seen an irascible 2-year-old grow into a pleasant, thoughtful, and considerate older child. Unfortunately, for reasons that are poorly understood, a few children don't "get" this part of socialization. Years after toddler tantrums should have become an unpleasant memory, a few unlucky parents find themselves battling with sudden, inexplicable, disturbingly violent rages--along with crushing guilt about what they "did wrong." Medical experts haven't helped much: the flurry of acronyms and labels (Tourette's, ADHD, ADD, etc.) seems to proffer new discoveries about the causes of such explosions, when in fact the only new development is alternative vocabulary to describe the effects. Ross Greene, a pediatric psychologist who also teaches at Harvard Medical School, makes a bold and humane attempt in this book to cut through the blather and speak directly to the (usually desperate) parents of explosive children. His text is long and serious, and has the advantage of covering an enormous amount of ground with nuance, detail, and sympathy, but also perhaps the disadvantage that only those parents who are not chronically tired and time-deprived are likely to get through the entire book. Quoted dialogue from actual sessions with parents and children is interspersed with analysis that is always oriented toward understanding the origins of "meltdowns" and developing workable strategies for avoidance. Although pharmacological treatment is not the book's focus, there is a chapter on drug therapies.