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Low-Demand Parenting: Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with Your Uniquely Wired Child

by Amanda Diekman

A lower-demand approach to family life

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A lower-demand approach to family life

Amanda Diekman presents low-demand parenting as a way to reconsider the expectations placed on a child and the family. The book guides parents in identifying demands that may be obvious, small, or easy to overlook, then offers step-by-step suggestions for reducing them. Practical resources and scripts are included for use in everyday family life. Drawing on Diekman’s experience as a parent of neurodivergent children and an autistic adult, the book focuses on adapting parenting practices to a child’s needs, including when anxiety is high.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents of neurodivergent children seeking practical ways to rethink household expectations
  • Families navigating high anxiety and everyday demands
  • Readers interested in parenting resources that include scripts and step-by-step guidance

Themes

Low-demand parentingNeurodivergence and autismAnxiety in family lifeAcceptance and connectionPractical parenting strategies

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Book overview

"Low-demand parenting requires radical acceptance. It says to the kid right in front of you, I see you, just as you are. - You are ok here. I love you right here."

Parent to neurodivergent children and autistic adult, Amanda Diekman, outlines a parenting approach that finally lowers the bar for the whole family, enabling the equilibrium of the home to be restored.

Low-demand parenting allows you to drop the demands and expectations that are making family life impossible and embrace the joyful freedom of living life with low demands. It can be a particularly effective approach for children with high anxiety levels including neurodivergent children. Amanda talks from experience and teaches you how to identify what the big, tiny and invisible demands are for your own child and gives you the step-by-step instructions on how to drop them.

Full of practical resources and scripts that are easy to implement in busy everyday life, this book is your flashlight and your map to parenting your uniquely wired child. It will not tell you where to go, but it will help you find your way so you and your family thrive.

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