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    The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
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    The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
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    The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive

    Written by W. Thomas Boyce MD

    Narrated by Fred Sanders

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    About this audiobook

    From one of the world's foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health — an audiobook that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and child development experts coping with "difficult" children, fully exploring the author's revolutionary discovery about childhood development, parenting, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success.

    In Tom Boyce's extraordinary audiobook, he explores the "dandelion" child (hardy, resilient, healthy), able to survive and flourish under most circumstances, and the "orchid" child (sensitive, susceptible, fragile), who, given the right support, can thrive as much as, if not more than, other children.

    Boyce writes of his pathfinding research as a developmental pediatrician working with troubled children in child-development research for almost four decades and explores his major discovery that reveals how genetic make-up and environment shape behavior. He writes that certain variant genes can increase a person's susceptibility to depression, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and antisocial, sociopathic, or violent behaviors. But rather than seeing this "risk" gene as a liability, Boyce, through his daring research, has recast the way we think of human frailty and has shown that while these "bad" genes can create problems, they can also, in the right setting and the right environment, result in producing children who not only do better than before but far exceed their peers.

    Orchid children, Boyce makes clear, are not failed dandelions; they are a different category of child, with special sensitivities and strengths, and need to be nurtured and taught in special ways. And in The Orchid and the Dandelion, Boyce shows us how to understand these children for their unique sensibilities, their considerable challenges, and their remarkable gifts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 29, 2019
    ISBN9780147521910
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    • 3/5
      Great book about resilient and sensitive children, however, sometimes repetitive. Also lacking instructions and suggestions about lifestyle and relationships for already grown up orchid (and dandelion) type people.