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Low-Demand Parenting

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

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Low-Demand Parenting

By: Amanda Diekman
Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
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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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This was a great intro to low-demand parenting with advice on how to implement it. Having these things woven through the authors personal experience made it very relatable and easy to see why it is helpful with neurodivergent kids. Thoroughly enjoyed.

Nice intro to the subject

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Deeply personal and honest account of low demand parenting. A must read for all parents.

Radical Honesty

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So many light bulb moments for myself and my family. It's Challenging to fully accept some areas the author had embraced but it's a really great explanation of what works for a family and how you can apply it so it could work for you too.

A guide to Radical Acceptance

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We’ve all been told to push through and try harder our whole lives.
I knew my kids needed something different, and through letting go of demands for them, I am finding my own freedom too.
Thank you Amanda for sharing what you’ve been through, making me and so many other parents feel less alone. Thank you for sharing this deep, life changing approach to not only parenting, but living.

This is what the world needs.

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Everyone with kids or even without should read this. Great perspective for life in general. If we could all live and work with this style we probably wouldn't be in this mental health crisis

must read for parents

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