LowDemand Parenting, Amanda Diekman
LowDemand Parenting, Amanda Diekman
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Low-Demand Parenting
Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with your Uniquely Wired Child

Author: Amanda Diekman

Narrator: Lauryn Allman

Unabridged: 4 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 07/21/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on July 04, 2023

This book is SO rich!! I’m an OT and this book is going to the top of my resource list for families struggling. We so often focus our interventions on changing the child and the emphasis in this book on changing the environment and task demands is the missing piece of supporting so many of our neuro......more

Goodreads review by Carah on November 19, 2024

The intro to this was welcoming and made me invested in reading the entire book. Definitely shifts some ways of looking at things and encourages some introspective thinking on my "whys". Definitely leaves me with more questions than answers but everyone's parenting journey is different so that is to......more

Goodreads review by Reese on February 13, 2025

Amanda Diekman has such compassion and love for her children. That is thoroughly evident in this book. There were many helpful concepts & ideas. Although many are nuanced specifically for their family situation & life. It’s a great starter for getting yourself thinking and doing some of the work, bu......more

Goodreads review by Moon on June 18, 2023

I wish every parent and parent to be could read this book! This low demand approach for families is just what is needed in today’s society which leaves so many families exhausted and burned out with no idea what to do next. This low demand approach has infused joy and peace into our home for my kids......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on May 27, 2024

Every neurodivergent family should read this book (maybe even NT ones). This is a must read for parents of kids with PDA or any kind of extreme demand avoidance.......more