Parenting Children With Health Issues: Essential Tools, Tips, and Tactics for Raising Kids With Chronic Illness, Medical Conditions, and Special Healthcare Needs

NOTE: NEWLY REVISED EDITION is now available. We have UPDATED this book (May, 2024). The Ebook is available on Amazon and the print version is in process. Be sure to buy the version that says "Revised Edition" on the top of the cover (not "Love and Logic" as that is the old edition).
Does your child have a health condition which requires special medical or dietary care? Whatever the health issue, you will learn the essential parenting skills you need to help your child comply with medical requirements, cope well with health challenges, and live a hope-filled life. Get practical and compassionate answers to your toughest questions as you discover effective ways to communicate about medical issues with children of all ages. This book will teach you how to: . Encourage your child to love life despite health challenges. . Handle refusal to take medication and do medical treatments. . Skillfully respond to your child's special emotional needs. . Avoid power struggles and other common parenting traps. . Promote responsibility without nagging or lecturing. . Navigate sibling, family and couple relationship issues. . Enable your child to make good self-care decisions.

Foster W. Cline, MD is an internationally-known child psychiatrist and author of twelve books.  Other titles include "Parenting with Love and Logic" and "Parenting Teens with Love and Logic".  Lisa C. Greene, M.A., CFLE is a parent educator and mother of two children with special healthcare needs. Other titles include "Healthy Choices, Happy Kids: Making Good Choices with Everyday care" and "Parenting Children with Health Issues and Other Special Needs" condensed version.