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Low-Demand Parenting

Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with your Uniquely Wired Child

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 Short, easy-read guide for parents on how to reduce family conflict by dropping unnecessary demands from daily life to help neurodivergent families to thrive.

"Low-demand parenting requires radical acceptance. It says to the kid right in front of you, I see you, just as you are. - You are ok here. I love you right here."

Parent to neurodivergent children and autistic adult, Amanda Diekman, outlines a parenting approach that finally lowers the bar for the whole family, enabling the equilibrium of the home to be restored.

Low-demand parenting allows you to drop the demands and expectations that are making family life impossible and embrace the joyful freedom of living life with low demands. It can be a particularly effective approach for children with high anxiety levels including neurodivergent children. Amanda talks from experience and teaches you how to identify what the big, tiny and invisible demands are for your own child and gives you the step-by-step instructions on how to drop them.

Full of practical resources and scripts that are easy to implement in busy everyday life, this book is your flashlight and your map to parenting your uniquely wired child. It will not tell you where to go, but it will help you find your way so you and your family thrive.

(P) 2023 Jessica Kingsley Publishers©2023 Amanda Diekman Children's Health Relationships Health Mental Health Autism Special need
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Opened my eyes about how I and others are trying to change my children and that by accepting of who they are takes away so much of the burden

Acceptance and hope

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Real life examples and real life understanding. Amanda offers techniques to help make the theory a reality. A great resource.

A great summary of low demand parenting

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Would highly recommend this audiobook. Easy to follow and understand; insightful, informative, practical and transformative.

Highly recommend

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So glad Amanda has written this book! We had already realised that our PDA-autistic son needed a totally different kind of parenting. This book clearly sets out the 'Why' and 'What' and 'How' of Low Demand Parenting, with lived examples from Amanda's own family. It's not just about parenting either; it's about the whole family, about recovery, about trust, connection, and making sure everyone's needs are met, parents included. Thank you Amanda!

Invaluable info and help for parents of ND kids

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This book helped me instantly with my own children. I have a new found sense of peace. Thank you!

Best book I have listened to all year!

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