A review by wintrovia
Low-Demand Parenting: Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with your Uniquely Wired Child by Amanda Diekman

4.0

As someone that is familiar with PDA and low-demand parenting, I went into this book wary that it might be "preaching to the choir" to an extent and I might not gain much. However, I found it a really useful summary of the key aspects of this approach and the author's personal account of her experience was both reassuring and enlightening. Despite having read about this subject elsewhere, I still found plenty of new ideas and different ways of considering low-demand parenting, particularly around the idea of "Fake dropping demands" and how to care for yourself as a parent when using this style of parenting. The section on screen time was useful too as it helps to reassure that removing boundaries in this area isn't giving in and is a valid approach to support children who benefit from a low-demand way of being cared for. I can imagine some people may find some of the ideas contained in the book radical or extreme, particularly if you subscribe to a different approach to parenting but having already tried and experienced success with this method I enjoyed finding out more about someone else's experience.