Your Child's Point of View: Understanding the Reasons Kids Do Unreasonable Things

In Your Child’s Point of View: Understanding the Reasons Kids Do Unreasonable Things, the Occuplaytional Therapist (Kelsie Olds) combines reassuring knowledge, modern research, light humor, and empathetic imagination to provide helpful insights and collaborative strategies for solving common adult/child challenges at home and at school, with an emphasis on meeting everybody’s needs in a positive way.Whether you are raising a baby or teenager, teaching preschool or high school, or embarking on the often-difficult journey of reparenting your own inner child, this book is for you. Within its pages, you will find over fifty relatable examples of common childish behaviors. Each scenario, initially shown from the adult’s perspective, offers a possible child’s perspective, along with key things to know about why children may act this way and key things to try for replacing conflict with joyful connection.***“So many of the expectations we have for children, both at home and at school, are simply not in line with their natural development. This book will help shift your lens toward realistic ideas about what children are capable of, no matter their neurotype... You’ll appreciate the specific behavioral examples, straightforward advice, and accessible format. And no matter where you are starting from, you can benefit from how the recommended strategies balance everyone’s needs.”– Autball, Autistic advocate and educator“That child is a phrase I have often heard, both as a teacher and parent. Sometimes it has referred to one of my children that has not behaved in the way that school has wanted them to. I know how it feels to have one of those children that teachers don’t like. This is why I celebrate this book by Kelsie Olds, offering a ray of hope to parents like me.”– Suzanne Axelsson, play advocate and author of The Original Learning Approach“Put this book at the top of your To Read list! As readers of 'The Occuplaytional Therapist' know, Kelsie Olds has an unusual gift: sharing about neurodiversity-affirming parenting in a relatable, practical way. You will see your kids and yourself in the examples—and walk away with fresh perspective on supporting both. Highly recommend.”– Cass Griffin Bennett, autistic parent and AAC advocate"As a longtime family therapist and mom of four adult daughters, I own an embarrassing number of parenting books, and I have both taught and attended countless parenting courses. Too often, we find the same ideas repackaged with a slightly different spin, sporting little more than a fresh title. Or we see parenting recommendations and think, ‘that might work for someone else’s kid, but it would never work for mine’—which is almost immediately followed by feelings of frustration, hopelessness, and inadequacy. This book is categorically different."– Suzi Mohn, M.A., Licensed Individual, Couple, and Family Therapist“In Your Child’s Point of View, author Kelsie Olds, 'The Occuplaytional Therapist,' tells us how important it is to consider a child’s point of view, lived experiences, and individual differences when raising and working with developing humans. I highly recommend this book for parents and educators. I love that the book provides a brain- and nervous system-based understanding of child development at every stage.”– Guy Stephens, Executive Director of Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint Read more