Help! My Kid Won't Go to School!: Finding Hope on a Bad Day - Softcover

Fowle, Katie; Ham, Sharoya

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798990129719

Verlag: Embrace Behavior Change, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

School refusal is a term you don't know until it affects your family. Help! My Kid Won't Go to School is a roadmap for getting your child (9+) out the door and back in school.

Help! My Kid Won't Go to School is part memoir and part step-by-step guide. Co-author Katie Fowle shares her raw and honest account of overcoming school refusal with her daughter. In addition, Parent Coach and co-author Sharoya Ham helps parents unravel the underlying causes of their child's school resistance. Within this book's concise, story-driven chapters, parents learn effective strategies to use in the heat of the moment.

Research by the School Avoidance Alliance estimates that 15 to 85 students will experience school refusal in a school of 300 pupils. School refusal can be extremely frustrating, confusing, and exhausting. The skills covered in the book have helped hundreds of overwhelmed parents get their children moving in the right direction.

In each chapter, co-author and mother Katie Fowle reveals the skills she learned to defuse arguments, strengthen her parent-child relationship, and ultimately solve the mystery of her daughter's school refusal by understanding the various root causes of school refusal, i.e., anxiety, depression, academic challenges, undiagnosed learning differences, bullying, boredom, excessive gaming or screen time, and other critical factors in a child's life like divorce, death, a move or transition to a new school.

Help! My Kid Won't Go to School includes:

• Key facts about school refusal
• Root causes for school refusal
• Scripts for parents to use
• Guidance for creating supportive boundaries
• Steps for developing a child's Social-emotional skills

If you have a child going through school refusal, this book is the resource you've been waiting for.

School refusal can be extremely complex and confusing for parents. Collaboration between home and school is essential during the process. However, many parents need help implementing effective changes at home. The parenting skills covered in this book have been a game changer for hundreds of parents by providing a how-to guide for turning events like school refusal into opportunities to create supportive boundaries and moments of social-emotional learning.

This school refusal handbook for parents is what counselors, teachers, and therapists have been waiting for.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Katie Fowle is a dyslexia specialist and co-founder of Global Village Tutors. She's empowered hundreds of students through academic and social-emotional skill-building. Despite her professional success, Katie struggled as a mom when her daughter refused to get out of bed to go to school. Katie wrote her story to empower parents and inform educators.

SHAROYA HAM, M.Ed., is a passionate behavior change specialist, author, veteran teacher, and founder of Embrace Behavior Change. She has helped hundreds of overwhelmed parents learn how to parent calmly, consistently, and confidently. She works with families whose children face educational, behavioral, and relational challenges. Sharoya has helped families overcome school refusal across five continents, demonstrating the global applicability of her methods. She is a sought-after international parent coach who truly believes every family can create the home environment they want - one behavior change at a time Sharoya has a Master's in Special Education with an emphasis on Applied Behavior Analysis. She also holds a New Jersey State Teacher Certification in Secondary Mathematics and a graduate certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis. With a career spanning over 25 years, Sharoya has worked extensively with at-risk students and their families. However, her most cherished role was that of a stay-at-home mom. Her three wonderful sons have been her greatest teachers, providing her with invaluable insights into the complexities of parenting. For over a decade, she's worked with schools, organizations, and religious communities to support and strengthen hundreds of families by sharing the secrets she's learned as a mom, teacher, and parent coach. Sharoya is a native of New Jersey, USA, and has lived in seven countries.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Embrace Behavior Change
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798990129719
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 114
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg