The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

This was an excellent, concise book on the aspects of parenting a child with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). The descriptions of what ODD looks like in children were spot on and even revealed much that my wife and I had not taken notice of previously. The tactics presented are practical and wel......more

Lots of practical tactics for parents with very challenging children, suggestions grouped by age of the child. Riley also does a great job of explaining what's going on in the OD child's mind that makes mainstream discipline so ineffective with this population: I must defeat the adults, I am smarter......more

Many of the techniques described were ones we thankfully already had employed (they do work) and so it was reassuring to receive the affirmation that we weren't doing everything wrong -- despite so many others' opinions. What I gained most from this book was in the perspective that it offered -- the......more