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gatorreads's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
wintrovia's review
3.0
Lots of useful suggestions about raising children with special needs. Not all of it applies to every situation and the book become less useful when it veers into more general life advice (living your best life, speaking your truth, etc) but overall it was helpful and reassuring to read.
vibeke_hiatt's review
4.0
This book helps me feel more comfortable with my son's autism spectrum diagnosis. Each chapter helps me to see our new situation in a different way. I'm glad some of Reber's suggestions are things I've done for a long time and there are other habits I look forward to developing. One drawback is that, as the parent of an only child, Reber didn't offer many insights into parenting both typical and atypical children at the same time.
This book is written for parents and shows us what WE can do to help our neurodivergent children. I highly recommend it, but the reader should know that it will not tell you how your child's brain works in any great detail.
This book is written for parents and shows us what WE can do to help our neurodivergent children. I highly recommend it, but the reader should know that it will not tell you how your child's brain works in any great detail.
angelamichelle's review
4.0
This book was super influential in helping me adopt a new way of looking at Jesse. In years past I’ve known he’s different (no news flash there!), but I’ve avoided naming those differences—in an effort to give him the gift of treating him “normal” while working to address his special needs.
But as he’s gotten older, and his differences have deepened, he needs ways to understand himself. And words to explain it to himself. This booked helped me see how to name Jesse’s differences in a productive, positive, honest way, which I hope will improve his ability to accept them and, free from confusion and shame, develop coping strategies.
But as he’s gotten older, and his differences have deepened, he needs ways to understand himself. And words to explain it to himself. This booked helped me see how to name Jesse’s differences in a productive, positive, honest way, which I hope will improve his ability to accept them and, free from confusion and shame, develop coping strategies.
readingjag's review
Mostly skimmed this one. The advice seems to boil down to homeschooling, which is simply not practical if you need both parents earning an income to, you know, feed/clothe/house your differently wired kid.
jwinchell's review
1.0
I’m abandoning this book and good riddance. I really don’t want parenting advice from someone who moves to Europe and homeschools their “differently wired” child. This woman changed careers so that “differently wired” could be what she focused on.
I have two boys with complex disabilities and social-emotional issues who go to public schools and have IEPs. I’ll find other books with people who have, IMO, more street cred.
I have two boys with complex disabilities and social-emotional issues who go to public schools and have IEPs. I’ll find other books with people who have, IMO, more street cred.
cdale8's review
3.0
Really 3.5 stars. I really wanted to gush on this book, and some of the tilts are useful reminders, but for those of us that aren't out there wafting in the winds of "oh noes, my child isn't normal" and are, rather, down in the trenches of "normal isn't really a thing anyway" just trying to maintain our energy levels and patience to do the best job we can do, the book is a reminder rather than a revelation. Like another reviewer I wanted ways to change the status quo, break the system, reshape the educational institutional boxes our children end up in, bend toward the arc of justice for differently-abled/wired/thinking children, and try to make the path easier for those who come after me. Essentially: "Raising an exceptional child in a conventional world." Pulling out of the conventional world entirely (e.g. homeschooling in a foreign country) as the author did isn't really a viable path for both most families' situation within the conventional world or these loftier goals of creating a more flexible and compassionate education system for all.