The end of each chapter provides a coaching exercise for you to focus on what you want to focus on and discover an action plan that suits you.

Coaching is not about advice giving or the coach telling you how to live your life.

Coaching holds a space for you to sort, discover and decide through your own creativity and resourcefulness using the coaching questions in each chapter as a guide.

 

Example from Chapter 1

Coaching yourself Through Meltdowns

Part A. What was happening immediately prior to the meltdown?

1. How did the meltdown escalate and transpire?

2. What was happening 2 hours before?

3. The day before?

4. Taking into account all of the above information, what seems the most likely cause?

Sometimes the answer will be clear and other times completely muddy.

No one can always figure it out. If you're stumped go to part B.

5.In future, what changes could you make earlier in the process?

6. How will you remind yourself?

7. What will you do differently next time?

Part B

If no reasonable cause emerges, how can you give yourself a breather to recover ?

 

Part C How will you give comfort to your child?

( a series of questions follow which are designed to help you answer this)

 

The book is divided into Sections and then subdivided into several chapters

•  Section 1: Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum
• Section 2 : Parenting Neurotypical Siblings
• Section 3 : Parent Care and Long Term Health

 

Author: Ruth Schroeder  Pub 2009 USA and UK Pb 222 pages