School refusal is a term you don't know until it affects your family. Help! My Kid Won't Go to School is a roadmap for getting your child (9+) out the door and back in school.
Help! My Kid Won't Go to School is part memoir and part step-by-step guide. Co-author Katie Fowle shares her raw and honest account of overcoming school refusal with her daughter. In addition, Parent Coach and co-author Sharoya Ham helps parents unravel the underlying causes of their child's school resistance. Within this book's concise, story-driven chapters, parents learn effective strategies to use in the heat of the moment.
Research by the School Avoidance Alliance estimates that 15 to 85 students will experience school refusal in a school of 300 pupils. School refusal can be extremely frustrating, confusing, and exhausting. The skills covered in the book have helped hundreds of overwhelmed parents get their children moving in the right direction.
In each chapter, co-author and mother Katie Fowle reveals the skills she learned to defuse arguments, strengthen her parent-child relationship, and ultimately solve the mystery of her daughter's school refusal by understanding the various root causes of school refusal, i.e., anxiety, depression, academic challenges, undiagnosed learning differences, bullying, boredom, excessive gaming or screen time, and other critical factors in a child's life like divorce, death, a move or transition to a new school.
Help! My Kid Won't Go to School includes:
- Key facts about school refusalRoot causes for school refusalScripts for parents to useGuidance for creating supportive boundariesSteps for developing a child's Social-emotional skills
If you have a child going through school refusal, this book is the resource you've been waiting for.
School refusal can be extremely complex and confusing for parents. Collaboration between home and school is essential during the process. However, many parents need help implementing effective changes at home. The parenting skills covered in this book have been a game changer for hundreds of parents by providing a how-to guide for turning events like school refusal into opportunities to create supportive boundaries and moments of social-emotional learning.
This school refusal handbook for parents is what counselors, teachers, and therapists have been waiting for.