Got An Angry Kid?

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Parenting Spike: A Seriously Difficult Child.

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Does your family live in conflict?

Does your child have a psychiatric label (such as ADHD, oppositional defiance, conduct disorder, bi-polar disorder) or the behavior that would get hi,/her one?

Have you lost (or nearly lost) control of your child?

If you have answered YES to any of these things, then P.A.C.T. can help you as it helped thousands of other families restore love and integrity to their relationships!

Got An Angry Kid: Parenting Spike- A Seriously Difficult Child

This slim volume looks innocent. It isn’t. It contains a road map, in the form of PACT Training, which has the potential to change your life. But before you can change your life, you will need to be convinced that it should be changed.

We live in a culture that is highly professionalized. Professionalization isn’t necessarily a bad thing but sometimes it can get in the way. The parent that finally comes to PACT is the parent who has been in the human services network for a while, has participated in all services available to them and wound up with a Spike who is no better than he was when they started the odyssey. Each of these efforts was headed up by a professional of one kind or another. The experience tends to grate on many parents.

It is the experience of living and struggling unsuccessfully with Spike that makes parents available to understand the potential of PACT. Without it, they will continue their frustrated pursuit of this professional and that professional trying to find the combination that will work for them and their child. In fact, by the time they trip over “Got An Angry Kid?’ it is likely they have tired of the professions.

Often they feel that the professions are out of touch with their problems. Indeed, professionals treat Spike as though he is solely a therapeutic problem. It isn’t true. He is a parenting problem as well and until his parents can learn a different set of skills, Spike is likely to stay Spike.

Reading ‘ Got An Angry Kid?’ opens a window on a set of possibilities that parents hadn’t considered. The book tells them that they have the potential to make life-altering changes themselves. No one ever told them that before. The revelation is both exciting as well as skepticism inducing. After all, if PACT is all that is claimed, why hasn’t the parent heard about it before? So part of the message doesn’t make sense.

The world of human services is a huge world but it all falls along some very traditional paths. The main path is that there is a professional out there ready and waiting to take the responsibility for creating change away from the parent. That is often not helpful, as many parents learn. Besides, consigning ourselves to the authority of another robs us of our own initiative.

We’ve been raised in a culture that values the impulse to seek out authority, so we work with it for a long time before we conclude that maybe we should work against it. Few of us raise our own vegetables, spin our own wool or create our own entertainment. Even in our complex culture, there are things we can do for ourselves.

We find others to do these things for us. Finding someone to change our kid isn’t any different. Doing what we can for ourselves is not merely satisfying but it can be essential in giving us a general sense of mastery over life.