The Two-Brain Household

Parenting When Your Brain and Your Kid's Brain Don't Run the Same Way

von Raymond Bentum

114 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

You are standing in the kitchen at six forty in the morning, holding a shoe your child has just declared "wrong" - and your own chest is already tight, not just from the shoe, but from the fourteen small negotiations that came before it.If that scene feels familiar, this book was written for you.A large share of ADHD and autistic adults are raising children who are ADHD or autistic themselves - sometimes diagnosed, sometimes not yet, sometimes simply recognized in the shape of a meltdown that looks exactly like one you remember having. Most parenting books assume the adult in the room is the stable, regulated variable. The Two-Brain Household doesn't. It's built specifically for families where two nervous systems - yours and your child's - are running at the same time, in the same house, and where standard advice quietly breaks down on the first hard morning.Inside, you'll find: - Why the guilt spiral starts, and how to separate what's actually true from what guilt tells you- How to interrupt the feedback loop between your dysregulation and your child's - without needing to be calm first- The "Sixty-Second Buyout" and other real tools for your own overload, mid-parenting- How to tell your triggers apart from your child's actual needs, in the moment- How to build household structure that works for two different nervous systems, not one- Advocacy strategies for school and diagnosis that don't burn out the parent doing the advocating- What changes when your co-parent is also neurodivergent, isn't, or isn't in the picture at all- A household system built to grow with your child, not just survive one organized weekThe book includes worked examples, composite case studies, a Quick-Reference Guide for in-the-moment scenarios, a glossary, a sample adaptable letter, and twelve printable worksheets.Written by a systems-design thinker and author who parents from inside this exact overlap, The Two-Brain Household doesn't promise a friction-free home. It offers something more useful: a clear-eyed way to see your household's real architecture, so you can build routines, responses, and repair strategies that work with both brains in the room - not strategies built for a household that was never yours to begin with.

• ISBN: 9798194078516
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp