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From the renowned authority on education and parenting, ā€œan in-depth approach to aid parents and teachers to work together with behaviorally challenging studentsā€ (Publishers Weekly)—now revised and updated.

School discipline is broken. Too often, the kids who need our help the most are viewed as disrespectful, out of control, and…

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I’ve been a huge fan of Ross Greene’s work for a long time because he is changing the way parents and educators look at children with behavioral challenges. His powerful motto, ā€œKids do well when they canā€ is a call for teaching lagging executive skills, instead of punishing kids for having executive functioning challenges.Ā Instead of thinking of a child with ADHD as being a ā€œbehavior problemā€ or ā€œunmotivatedā€, Dr. Greene's Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach helps parents and educators focus on the true factors contributing to challenging behaviors, empowering educators to address these factors and create helping relationships…

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