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Why Your Child is Hyperactive

Written on January 6, 2022.

This book, written by practicing pediatrician and allergist Dr. Ben Feingold, contains sound research and medical advice about how artificial food coloring and flavoring is often the culprit of hyperactivity in children. From this book, the widely...

Why Johnny Still Can’t Read: A New Look at the Scandals of Our Schools

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Written on December 10, 2021.

Now that Rudolf Flesch has made the argument that phonics is the most effective way to teach children how to read in his last book, Why Johnny Can’t Read – And What You Can Do About It, this second book further examines the role of phonics...

Why Johnny Can’t Read – And What You Can Do About It

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Written on November 8, 2021.

This book, written in 1955 by author, readability expert and writing consultant Rudolf Flesch, is all about phonics, which is the method recommended by the U.S. Department of Education for teaching children to read. Why Johnny Can’t Read and...

Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People

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Written on October 8, 2021.

This provocative expose of the psychology, and in particular the psychotherapy industry was first published in 1996 and was written by Tara Dineen, who has been referred to as a “dissident psychologist” with 30 years of experience. In...

The Myth of the Hyperactive Child: And Other Means of Child Control

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Written on September 30, 2021.

Though this book was published back in 1975, it was ahead of it’s time. Authors Peter Schrag and Diane Divoky produced a very well-researched book that is backed up by bold and insightful arguments. Schrag and Divoky examine the landscape of...

Coping with Children’s Temperament: A Guide for Professionals

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Written on September 21, 2021.

Pediatrician William B. Carey, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, brought us this insightful must-have guide to temperaments in children. Instead of constantly growing frustrated with their child’s temper tantrums, impatience,...

They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal

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Written on September 13, 2021.

The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) IV is the official diagnostic “bible” used by the American Psychiatric Association and mental health professionals. But so much of the general population doesn’t know...

Reclaiming our Children: A Healing Solution for a Nation in Crisis

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Written on August 20, 2021.

This is another groundbreaking and insightful book from psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin. In Reclaiming our Children: A Healing Solution for a Nation in Crisis, Breggin makes the case that society has, over time, begun to invest less and less in the...

The Ritalin Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You

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Written on July 30, 2021.

Peter R. Breggin, M.D. is an accomplished zealot for the overprescribing and misuse of psychotropic medications, that come as a result of the misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) in children. In the book, Breggin makes a strong case, which...

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Why Your Child is Hyperactive

Why Johnny Still Can’t Read: A New Look at the Scandals of Our Schools

Why Johnny Can’t Read – And What You Can Do About It

Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People

The Myth of the Hyperactive Child: And Other Means of Child Control

Coping with Children’s Temperament: A Guide for Professionals

They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal

Reclaiming our Children: A Healing Solution for a Nation in Crisis

The Ritalin Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You

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