Your Child's Point of View: Understanding the Reasons Kids Do Unreasonable Things

In Your Child’s Point of View: Understanding the Reasons Kids Do Unreasonable Things, the Occuplaytional Therapist (Kelsie Olds) combines reassuring knowledge, modern research, light humor, and empathetic imagination to provide helpful insights and collaborative strategies for solving common adult/child challenges at home and at school, with an emphasis on meeting everybody’s needs in a positive way.

Whether you are raising a baby or teenager, teaching preschool or high school, or embarking on the often-difficult journey of reparenting your own inner child, this book is for you. Within its pages, you will find over fifty relatable examples of common childish behaviors. Each scenario, initially shown from the adult’s perspective, offers a possible child’s perspective, along with key things to know about why children may act this way and key things to try for replacing conflict with joyful connection.

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“So many of the expectations we have for children, both at home and at school, are simply not in line with their natural development. This book will help shift your lens toward realistic ideas about what children are capable of, no matter their neurotype... You’ll appreciate the specific behavioral examples, straightforward advice, and accessible format. And no matter where you are starting from, you can benefit from how the recommended strategies balance everyone’s needs.”

– Autball, Autistic advocate and educator


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