Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hello everyone. This is Wayne Callan for Attitude magazine. Glad you can be with us.

As we all know, raising children diagnosed with ADHD and or ODD is very challenging. Most of us have yet to find a

parenting approach to meet all of those challenges. We wake up with the best of

intentions each day. I won't yell or snap back at my child.

I will listen closely to what he has to say and what he is feeling. I will get through the day

without conflict. But after a few hours, we tend to fall back on the only approaches we've used to raise our kid,

yelling, confrontation, issuing consequences, and resenting that our kids are so defiant.

Let's be honest, it's a very tough job for parents to stay cool and calm when your son or daughter is cursing at you or ignoring your words,

especially when you've had a tough day at the office and have a million things to do at home.

On the other hand, with the right approach, perhaps we could do a better job of getting to the bottom of our child's actions and behaviors.

But who has the time or patients when we are being pulled in so many directions?

We are pleased to have Dr. Ross Green with us today to give us a different perspective on all of this. Green is the

the originator of the collaborative and proactive solutions approach or CPS.

Most of you probably know about this, but for those who don't, CPS is based on the premise that

challenging behavior occurs when the expectations being placed on a child exceed the kids capacity to respond

adaptively and that some kids lack the skills to handle certain demands and

expectations. Dr. Green is the founding director of the nonprofit lives in the balance.

He is on the adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech

and in the Faculty of Science at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.

Dr Green has worked with several thousand behaviorally challenging kids and their families using the CPS model.

His most recent book is Raising Human Beings.

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