Adolescence is a rite of passage. For children, it is a time to test their boundaries. For us parents, it is a time to guide them towards being responsible and productive adults.

However, the period of your child’s adolescence is rife with struggle and misunderstanding.

Licensed clinical psychologist and psychiatric nurse practitioner Dr. Angie Rumaldo presents readers with a series of action plans to help correct common behavioral problems and sheds light on typical issues that children face at different phases in their growth and development.

With Dr. Rumaldo’s groundbreaking resource, you will have the essential help you need in Understanding Your Child’s and Teen’s Behavior.

Really helpful - some good tips and tricks to help me engage with my emerging teens (aargh send reinforcements!!)

This book was really good. It gave me some good facts about parenting and understanding my children better. I truly enjoyed this read.

I probably could have passed on this book and not been any worse for wear. Angie Rumaldo needed a better editor for sure, and the errors were quite distracting. Her "simple steps and resources" were not as helpful as a parent needing to benefit from this book would want them to be. Overall, just a "meh" from me.

I not only recommend this book for parents, but anyone that works with children and teens too. Grandparents and other relatives could benefit from this book as well -- in fact the child benefits as it helps the adults in their life help them through their journey. This is a great guide throughout the stages of development giving simple steps that are well defined helping the adult in the child's life walk them through understanding. The resources are there in an effort to help them guide and take action or notice any problems to help them feel better. The steps are clear showing why the child or teen might be acting a certain way. This will help in an effort to help clear up what is bothering them. The writer is a professional and has worked through these issues before knowing what needs done and it is clear through her writing.

Far too American for me, talks about yearly appointments with your paediatrician and such which turned me off entirely. (in the UK we have a GP and kids only see them if they are sick)

I loved the layout of the book and it is very easy to dip into to the relevant section for you. I also really liked the message that you the parent are the expert when it comes to your child therefore if you feel that something isn't quite right, go with your gut instinct to pursue to get to the bottom of it.

A great book that I will refer to as my two children grow up.

The author, Angie Rumaldo ,PhD., is and Advanced Practice Nurse and a licensed Clinical Pyschologist with over fifteen years of experience in the mental health field.
Her book lays our signs and symptoms that could be problematic from preschool age and up hincluding adults who act younger).
If then lays out a detailed action plan with steps, including looking at yourself and your parenting style.
It provides information on what to expect and how to get a 504 or IEP, dealing with the school system and what to expect from a mental health therapist.
If you’re expecting that your child’s behavior is not average, this is a great book to help you get started on the right path.
Thanks to Net Gallery and True Pursuit for an opportunity to read this book before publishing to offer my unbiased and honest review.

Thanks to author/publisher for giving me an opportunity to read this book.

This book is a must read for all parents. The author has done good job of making parents understand that there is no one ideal parent that we can all look up to and follow them blindly. The author lists out the various parenting styles and parents can identify themselves in one of those or may be more than one. Also the various stages of grief when one identifies an issue is pragmatic.

The part where the author discusses the decision of getting help for a kid, the decision that has to be made by the parent weighing various pros and cons was very powerful. The author puts the parents in ease in such a situation.

What i took away from the book is to play by the ear and try to keep the communication open with the kids as long as possible.

I think this book is nothing new. It's just a good source to see that what you might see as a PROBLEM with your kid is explainable and approachable.

However, I did find Angie Rumaldo's explanations at times to be slightly too pessimistic.
Like maybe she wanted to see and explain certain things as a problem that can be resolved when given this world right now, we are already calling it a norm and not a problem.

Like picky eaters?! Really? What kid wouldn't point towards an ice cream as opposed to a pealed carrot if given the chance?

Or the fact that kids can't sit still. Are we really calling it a PROBLEM anymore?

As a mother I often find myself sitting on the saw swing with AUTISTIC and ADD on each end. It's either too active or not responsive enough...isn't that just called kids these days?

I fear that a more sensitive mother might take a few things in this book a bit too painfully.

Other than that, it was interesting but I really didn't feel like I actually learned anything backstage when it comes to kids, or myself as a person who's once been a kid and is now an adult.

Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

This was an interesting book on understanding your child behaviour. It provides some pointers as to what to look for, how to implement changes yourself and when to seek further assistance.

It explains the four different parenting types, and the ideal one to meet (though it is flexible depending on the situation) and the seven stages of grief. The grieving process is for the parent rather than the child, do you understand your expectations and how they may not be met.

This book is aimed at parents in America, so the IEP & 504 chapters are not entirely relevant in England, though we do have some procedures that are similar for evaluating your child.

However, whilst it did provide action plans by different age groups, they did appear to be exactly the same; I would have expected different age groups to have different strategies in addition to the previous age group. Each age group also provided two scenarios which were at the beginning of the section with scenario one worked through. By the time scenario twos work through came, I'd forgotten what the scenario was.

I had hoped for some more real life resolutions from patients. There was one where it was explained two children refused to attend school despite having had therapy for a year, but no outcome was given as far as I could tell.

I received this book from netgalley in return for a honest review

A great resource for parents. This book shows you the warning signs that your child could be experiencing serious problems. Dr. Rumaldo provides material for parents to assess their parenting style and how it may affect a child.
This book walks you through an action plan that can be implemented in the home and school. It tells you when to get help and what type of help could possibly be needed. Interventions such as the 504 and the IEP are explained so that the layman can easily understand what is required and how to initiate the process.
Each chapter ends with a checklist that compiles the relevant part of the chapter into an easily accessible format.

Super comprehensive parenting guide, broken down into developmental stages and clearly defined steps of action integrating all resources at hand. My cultural background combined with my kids' shyness has always made me worry whether I'm parenting authoritative-ly or authoritarian-ly, and I found Dr. Rumaldo's book tremendously reassuring on all counts. Rather than merely prescribing good communication, she offers concrete advice on how to facilitate an open line of communication, for example. This book offers a spectrum of normal to extreme behaviors not just of kids, but of parents as well. The language is succinct and communicated in laymen's terms.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book courtesy of NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I read this book because the description said it would cover how to get your child to listen and effective discipline techniques. I think this book would be helpful for a lot of people. However, it was not as helpful for me as I had hoped. A good portion of the book discussed IEP and 504 plans. That information did not apply to me but I can see how it might be helpful to others.

I got the most out of the section on determining you're parenting style. The book briefly mentioned each child will respond better to some parenting styles. I wish they had gotten more specific on how to determine the parenting style that fits best with your child.

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I think every parent wonders if their child is "normal". This book gives a good assessment of normal and not so normal behaviors that children exhibit in all stages. The author is an experienced licensed social worker. She explains very clearly what steps you, as a parent, can take if you are concerned about certain behaviors in your child. She even explains what you can do to advocate for your child in school. I found the section on 504 plans and IEPs very informative.

This book has a wealth of support and information which I found invaluable. I found it a useful tool and offered guidance for parenting my children, particularly my son. It’s a book I will come back to and retain the information to use again.
Style of explaining and how it was written meant it was easy to follow

An easy to follow book with lots of interesting information. The help for children and teens is described in a straightforward and understandable way. This definitely a good book for parents to read.

A great book for anyone looking for answers to their child or teens behavior. A self help guide to talk you through solutions and tips to help gain a happy family life.

This is a great book both for parents and professionals; it explores the reasons and basis for a young person's behaviour, followed by very clear action plans as to how to deal with said behaviour. The chapters are laid out very clearly, covering a whole range of useful topics: the signs of concerning behaviour; action plans; when you should take action; and when it becomes a mental health need. This is an invaluable resource and so clearly written that you couldn't fail to get some benefit from it. Highly recommended.