All children are good if they can be. That is the premise of this book by Ross W. Greene. That when children explode - or implode - it is due to frustration around a skill they don't have...yet. Challenging kids are lacking the skills of flexibility, adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving. The list of [...]

In hypnosis and NLP we are taught to look for proof there is a problem. What are you doing or not doing that is different from what you want to be doing? So we would not say a child is ODD, ADHD, Autistic etc (and Xavier was diagnosed with all of these) but we would [...]