Here are several of my go-to books on juvenile, or early-onset, bipolar disorder.
This is the definitive guide, the one that the child psychiatrist asked us to check out as he was making the diagnosis. There's also a website.
Bipolar Child website
This one -- a book by a mom with bipolar children who cowrote with a medical expert -- has an easy-enough format that even when I'm panicked over some situation we're in, flipping madly through the book trying to find some help, I can find it.
It has grids about different levels of the illness and how to parent each level. I really really find those helpful.
This one is a great over-all about the illness itself, not specific to parenting bipolar kids but very helpful.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
"I Want, I Want"
I have to figure out what to do with my kiddos. They have everything they need, material-wise, and lots of what they want. Yet it's a constant bombardment with Scholastic fliers, going to stores and restaurants, vending machines... They are not nasty, but I will say that my oldest is especially fixated on things. Time to disclose to y'all that my oldest son has bipolar disorder -- which I'm sure I'll blog about a lot in the future. Anyway, he is up, he is down, and he obsesses a lot about a lot of things and is generally more difficult about things when he is not as stable in his mood.
He's the ringleader of the I Want I Want parade. I typically will tell my children to list things they see and like on a wish list which we (and their grandparents) will use at birthday and Christmas time. In the past, this was sufficient. Increasingly, though, it's been an endless parade of see-it, want-it, and generally not being grateful for what they do have.
How to stamp this out? We've had a lot of talks about how fortunate we are, and how you have to be grateful for what you have. I'm not sure what to do. I know I need to have them volunteer and do some service projects. I will. But what to do now? What to do w/ the ten-year-old who is soooo obsessed, for instance, with a movie he wants to rent that he asks us about it, harasses us, really, many many many times a day. (And he just got his screen time back today over some poor choices he made earlier in the week!)
He's the ringleader of the I Want I Want parade. I typically will tell my children to list things they see and like on a wish list which we (and their grandparents) will use at birthday and Christmas time. In the past, this was sufficient. Increasingly, though, it's been an endless parade of see-it, want-it, and generally not being grateful for what they do have.
How to stamp this out? We've had a lot of talks about how fortunate we are, and how you have to be grateful for what you have. I'm not sure what to do. I know I need to have them volunteer and do some service projects. I will. But what to do now? What to do w/ the ten-year-old who is soooo obsessed, for instance, with a movie he wants to rent that he asks us about it, harasses us, really, many many many times a day. (And he just got his screen time back today over some poor choices he made earlier in the week!)
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