15 Books Every CEO of an ADHD Family Should Read

1. Kid Cooperation: How to Stop Yelling, Nagging & Pleading and Get Kids to Cooperate Written by “Dr. William Sears, this concise and straightforward book is filled with applied skills that teach children to cooperate, end sibling fights, boost children’s self-esteem, and help parents handle discipline and anger with understanding and authority. An enlightening “parenting style” quiz reveals typical patternss and pitfalls.”
2. Kids, Parents and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime This book brings to light common conflicts, and how to use power struggles  as an opportunity to teach children better ways of expressing frustration, anger, jealousy, and other emotions. The author, Mary Kurcinka “also helps us recognize the role that temperament, both our own and out child’s, plays in family life–and that continued success depends on respecting our differences.”
3. Parenting Children With ADHD: 10 Lessons Medicine Can’t Teach “The author passes on his wisdom about how to help children with ADHD succeed, and includes medical, nutritional, educational, and psychological information in a format usably by parents, K-12 teachers and school adminstrator professionals, and health care professionals.”
4. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk an excellent communication tool kit based on a series of workshops developed by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. Faber and Mazlish (coauthors of Siblings Without Rivalry) provide a step-by-step approach to improving relationships in your house.”
5. Three Steps to a Strong Family Written by the Eyres ( Teaching Your Children Values ), parents of nine children share 3 fundamental elements of a success family structure: “a legal system for settling disputes and setting rules, an economy to teach financial responsibility and an identity for building strong values and traditions. Unlike many other parenting books, this one encourages parents to respect children without coddling them. Practical and clear-cut methods put much responsibility on the children, while fostering their sense of security, enabling them to become successful and independent adults.”
6. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity David Allen, “a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. ” This book is destined to be a classic, currently a standard reference for many CEOs of the Fortune 500.
7. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play Using the power of positive psychology, “author Neil Fiore offers the first comprehensive strategy to overcome the causes of procrastination and to eliminate its deleterious effects. His techniques will help any busy person get more things done more quickly, without the anxiety and stress brought on by failure to meet the workplace’s pressing deadlines.”  The revised edition now includes ”strategies to understand and deal with the complex role technology plays in procrastination today.”
8. Unclutter Your Life in One Week This book “offers useful and innovative suggestions for tackling the physical, mental, and systemic distractions in different areas of your home and office each day.”  The “…down-to-earth approach will help you part with sentimental clutter, organize your closet based on how you process information, build an effective and personalized filing system, avoid the procrastination that often hinders the process, and much more. Once you cure the clutter,” the book “shares practical advice for maintaining your harmonious home and work environments with minimal daily effort.”
9. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean my Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have more Fun In Gretchen Rubin’s memoir of creating happiness, Rubin provides a funny, perceptive account that is both “inspirational and forgiving, and sprinkled with just enough wise tips, concrete advice and timely research (including all those other recent books on happiness) to qualify as self-help. “
10. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens “Based on his father’s bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Sean Covey applies the same principles to teens, using a vivacious, entertaining style. “
11. Bringing Up Geeks: Genuine, Enthusiastic, Empowered Kids: How to Protect Your Kid’s Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World “Author and mother of four Marybeth Hicks suggests an alternative: bringing up geeks. In this groundbreaking book, she shows parents how they can help their children gain the enthusiasm to pursue their passions, not just the latest fashions; the confidence to resist peer pressure and destructive behaviors; the love of learning that helps them excel at school and in life; and the maturity to value family as well as friends, as well as make good moral decisions.”
12. Yes, Your Teenager is Crazy: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind This book is sharp, witty, and direct.  ”Bradley, a psychologist drawing on current brain research, argues that teenagers are basically nuts. While 95 percent of the brain develops in early childhood, the most advanced parts aren’t completed until adolescence is nearly over. As a result, teens can appear unstable, dysfunctional and unpredictable, with temporarily impaired judgment and decision-making processes. In addition, Bradley argues, contemporary culture further challenges teens’ thinking capabilities; the prevalence of sex, drugs and violence makes the teen’s job of cognitive balancing even more precarious. The good news is that parents do make a difference, and Bradley clearly explains how parents can encourage and guide their kids through these tumultuous years.”
13. The Explosive child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Child This book is a classic, popularizing the idea,”children do well, if they can.”  Written by child psychologist, Ross Green, this book provides a framework for understanding difficult, hard-to-manage, and easily frustrated children as well as describes a decision-making process for adults to use, while guiding these easily frustrated children.
14. The Last Lecture Made famous by his Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon and the quick Internet proliferation of the video of the event, Pausch, despite being several months into the last stage of pancreatic cancer, puts together his “lessons and morals for his young and infant children to learn once he is gone. Despite his sometimes-contradictory life rules, it proves entertaining and at times inspirational.”
15. Is It You, Me or ADD: Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love Has Attention Deficit Disorder “Meticulously researched by award-winning journalist Gina Pera,” this book “is a comprehensive guide to recognizing the behaviors where you least expect them (on the road and in the bedroom, for example) and developing compassion for couples wrestling with unrecognized ADHD symptoms. It also offers the latest information from top experts, plenty of real-life details, and easy-to-understand guidelines for finding the best treatment options and practical solutions.”