This book is about really 'difficult' children & how through the Nurtured Heart Approach of Howard Glasser & Jennifer Easley their lives & the lives of those who care about them can be transformed for the better. Already a major bestseller in the USA this book offers parents & carers a new way of helping their intense child change & succeed. The Nurtured Heart Approach is about strategically creating actual experiences of success for children within the context of their activities & their relationships. The Approach is constructed in steps. Each step is defined by a recommended strategy that adds to the preceding steps in a way that builds a progressive framework & a complete system for parenting the most challenging child. Such techniques should be applied only as intensively as the situation merits. The authors reject the 'ritalin based' approach believing instead that a challenging child can have an essential change of nature & can begin to use his or her intensity in remarkably positive ways.