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Additive Alert

By Julie Eadie
  • Talks about the prevalence and effects of additives in our everyday foods.
  • How to read food labels to minimize additives in our diets, especially for children.
  • Information on 'safer' brands and alternatives.

The Real Deal

By Dr. Peter Dingle
  • A guide for parents, focusing on health and wellbeing.
  • Dr. Dingle is a senior lecturer in environmental and nutritional toxicology at Murdoch University, WA. He is the founding Director of the Positive Living Foundation and involved in Youth Leadership.

The Myth of the A.D.D. Child

By Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.
  • Talks about the questionable way in which children are labelled, treated (with drugs), misunderstood and mistreated.
  • Provides some great advice (50 ideas), strategies and practical things parents can do to improve their child's behaviour and attention span (without drugs, labels or coercion).

Talking Back to Ritalin

By Dr. Peter Breggin
  • Author is one of the foremost experts on the dangers of prescription drugs. He is a medical expert/advisor and has testified at Government hearings as well as being a consultant for several lawsuits.
  • This book goes into depth about the effects of stimulants such a Ritalin.

The A.D.D. Answer

By Dr. Frank Lawlis
  • Dr. Lawlis is head of the Dr. Phil Advisory Board for the Dr. Phil Show.
  • He is a renowned psychologist, researcher, counsellor and innovator in the field of behavioural medicine. He has 35 years experience working with parents and children diagnosed with A.D.D.
  • He is very holistic and multi-disciplinary in the way he treats children - preferring to use minimal medication or not at all.

Attention Deficit Disorder - A Different Perception

By Thom Hartmann
  • Provides a fresh approach to how we should view the characteristics/traits of those diagnosed with A.D.D. In particular it encourages positive focus on the 'perceived weaknesses' of such individuals.

My Dog Eats Better Than Your Kids

By Dr Peter Dingle
  • Author of 'The DEAL', Peters latest book will change the way you look at food and what you eat. You'll discover what your family should be eating, how to improve your diet and about the impact of processed foods on our health.
  • Able to be read in 1 hour, and is designed and worded so kids can also read. Lots of illustrations often with humour.

Fed Up With ADHD

By Sue Dengate
  • In this step by step guide, author 'Food Detective' Sue Dengate helps parents determine whether their child's learning and behaviour are being affected by the foods they eat. Both seemingly healthy foods, as well as additives and junk food can be the culprits. She helps readers through the process of addressing diet issues.
  • Other books written by Sue include 'Fed Up', 'Different Kids', 'Fed Up With Asthma' and 'The Failsafe Cookbook'.

The Failsafe Cookbook

By Sue Dengate
  • This book contains hundreds of 'safe' recipes for all kinds of occasions ranging from breakfast through to dessert, including gluten free.

Low to No Additives

By Olivia Dyer & Bridy Fulvio
  • This book is a recipe book as well as a resource for keeping your family safe from potentially harmful additives in our food and includes a numeric guide to food additives.
  • It contains 120 low to no additive family recipes to help you work towards a cleaner, healthier diet.

ADHD Who's Failing Who?

By Dr Brenton Prosser
  • Dr Prosser's view is that if we only ask medical questions about ADHD we will only get medical answers - and a continuing focus on drug treatment. This book explains ADHD in a compassionate and challenging way and explodes many of the myths surrounding the condition.
  • Includes real life stories of teens diagnosed with ADHD, offers advice and ideas to help parents, and includes 100 helpful hints for teachers.

Saving Our Children From Our Chaotic World

by Maggie Dent
  • The author is a resiliency specialist, and has spent 20 years working in and around secondary schools. In this book she focuses on teaching children the 'magic of silence and stillness'.
  • She also talks about how human connectedness is the key to resilience, authentic happiness and a sense of well being and how we need to nurture the human spirit that exists within every child.

Who'd Be A Parent?

By Dr John Irvine
  • This is a must have manual by much admired celebrity psychologist Dr John on how to raise good kids. His unique style uses 'playfare' not warfare to cope with and enjoy raising kids. Topics covered include ADHD, smacking, behaviour problems and so on.
  • Other books written by Dr John include 'Coping With The Family' and 'Thriving At School'.

Thriving At School

By Dr John Irvine
  • This book is full of good advice for helping your child through the school system, focusing in particular on school related issues such as self-esteem, learning, anxiety, bullying and so on.

Natural Treatments For ADD And Hyperactivity.

By Skye Weintraub
  • The author discusses the hidden and unrecognized causes of ADD symptoms. She embraces the role of parents, teacher involvement, natural treatments and the importance of self-esteem.

The Hyperactivity Hoax - How To Stop Drugging Your Child And Find Real Medical Help

By Sydney Walker MD
  • In this book the Author (a psychiatrist and neurologist), discusses in detail the underlying medical conditions which cause the symptoms of AD(H)D.

Effective Ways To Help Your ADD/ADHD Child: Drug Free Alternatives for Attention Deficit Disorder

By Laura J. Stevens
  • The Author discusses in each of the 12 Chapters of this guide, steps parents can take to help their children with a major focus on diet and supplements.

The ADD Book - New Understandings, New Approaches to Parenting Your Child

By William Sears MD, and Lynda Thompson PHD
  • A very useful and comprehensive book written by successful U.S. celebrity Paediatrician Dr Bill Sears, who personally relates to kids diagnosed 'ADD' - referring to himself as 'hyper-productive'.
  • Lynda Thompson is Director of the ADD Centre in Toronto Canada and a child psychologist who uses and discusses Neurofeedback extensively as an effective, drug-free treatment approach for behaviour and learning problems.
  • The authors discuss the positives of the traits that these kids possess including tenacity and spontaneity. The books overall aim is to help parents reduce/eliminate the need for medication for their children's problems.

He'll Be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men

By Celia Lashlie
  • The author has had extensive experience working with teens and men in the NZ prison system, was a lawyer representing children, then a magistrate in the Children's Court. This book is the findings of the 'Good Men Project' - research undertaken by Celia in 25 boys schools over an 18 month period exploring what makes boys 'tick' and how society can guide and raise them into good men.
  • A must read for parents of boys, in particular upper primary school age and into adolescence as it offers real insight as to how boys think, feel and develop often including dialogue from actual discussions. Readers will be reassured that their sons worrying behaviour can often be very 'normal'.

No More ADHD

By Dr Mary Ann Block
  • In this book Dr Block questions the very existence of the ADHD diagnosis with compelling and fact-based arguments and how children's attention and behaviour symptoms can be the result of real and explainable health and learning problems. While others debate the ADD issue, she has spent her medical career working in the trenches helping to get children off drugs and to keep them off.

ADD And ADHD: Complementary Medicine Solutions

By Charles Gant
  • The author is a medical doctor with a PhD in psychology and a BS in Chemistry. In this book he discusses the debate into whether or not ADD & ADHD are biochemical problems, whether nutrients and diet can be used to treat these problems (he says yes), and questions the safety of drug therapy. He also explains what complementary medicine has to offer sufferers, their families and all who attempt to help them.

'The Out Of Sync Child'

By Carol Kranowitz
  • A book about recognizing and coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction. It's a book for parents whose child has been labeled with words like picky, oversensitive, clumsy, or inattentive. This is a guide on addressing the child's underlying difficulties and discusses drug-free approaches.
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