★When children’s emotions are well taken care of, half of parenting worries are gone! This book is dedicated to the parents of children with special needs, who have been chosen by fate. Your courage and resilience have created endless possibilities for another life!
★Best-selling book on major online bookstores in Taiwan, ranking in the top 5 of the fastest-selling books on books.com.tw!

★The author, having transitioned from being a parent of a child with special needs to a therapist, truly understands the needs of parents.
★The book introduces methods to regulate the emotions of both parents and children, helping children stay calm and parents remain composed.
★It includes emotion cards and need cards, allowing children to express their unspoken troubles through the cards!

Every child with special needs has unique physical and mental limitations, but most share a common trait: emotional outbursts.
When children with special needs encounter setbacks, their emotions often surge quickly and intensely. What’s worse, if parents also get angry, it only adds fuel to the fire. This not only strains the parent-child relationship but also affects the child’s social adaptation outside the home.

Countless experts have argued that emotional stability is more important for a child’s lifelong development than cognitive or skill enhancement. Therefore, families with children who have special needs most need methods for emotional control for both parents and children.
Drawing on her personal parenting experience, special education, psychology, and holistic therapy, the author has designed an emotional first-aid kit specifically for families with children who have special needs. It tells parents how to remain as stable as a mountain and stay calm in the midst of emotional storms, protecting their children who are having tantrums until the storm passes.

The book is divided into four main parts: I. Psychological Preparation for Raising a Child with Special Needs, II. Dancing with the Child’s Emotions, III. Parents Need Care Too, IV. What Resources Are Available for Parents?

First, it helps parents build up their psychological resilience for raising a child with special needs. Then, it offers practical solutions for dealing with the child’s outbursts. How should parents guide their child when they are angry? How should they face it if violence occurs? What are the different approaches for children with mild and severe conditions?

Moreover, parents need to change their mindset, release stress, and even reconcile with their own families of origin to find the real solution to long-term troubles. If feelings of despair and giving up arise, immediate emotional first aid is needed to return to calmness.
The book also includes resources for special education and suggestions for life arrangements, such as communicating with relatives, teachers, and classmates. Parents should not fight alone but invite relatives and friends to support the child’s growth together, because he is a child given to us by fate!

If you want to learn various techniques to deal with emotional and behavioral storms, this is the manual to follow. ——Lai Ying-hung, Senior Emotional and Behavioral Itinerant Teacher

Wu Huiming (Amanda),

A graduate of the Public Relations program at Syracuse University in the United States and of the Japanese Department of Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, she has obtained a National Second - Level Psychological Counselor Certificate in China. She used to work for a foreign - funded company for a long time and is a single mother of a son with Tourette syndrome, suspected Asperger syndrome, ADHD, and OCD.
She is often invited to speak at school parents’ growth classes. Her main experiences include training for mental - and - physical - disability caregivers, serving as a special education committee member of the parents’ association at Ming Lun High School, being a speaker at the ‘2016 Special Education Student Parents’ Parent Education Seminar’ at Ming Lun High School, and being an advisor for the non - profit organization Taiwan Indigo Angel Association. She is now a holistic mind - body - spirit integrator and a spiritual counselor.