For all the parents who feel overwhelmed by what they face.

In this crucial guide, parents will find empathy and support as well as evidence-based practical guidance. Advanced Parenting helps readers discover ways to optimize the outcomes for their family and make their day-to-day life easier.

Dr. Kelly Fradin

Parents will feel seen, supported, and better prepared to be both a parent and a caregiver.

— Dr. Kelly Fradin

About the book

Advanced Parenting: Advice for Helping Kids Through Diagnoses, Differences, and Mental Health Challenges

Available April, 2023

The Problem

Parenting is hard. Because we care so deeply for our children, as parents we want things to be perfect. As a parent, you want things to go as planned. You want to be prepared for every developmental change and anticipate your child’s needs to properly support them.

But parenting is even harder when things do not follow a typical trajectory.

While every parent hopes for a healthy child, the reality is that children face many common challenges, including medical issues like ADHD, asthma, food allergies, feeding issues, learning disabilities, anxiety and depression, and developmental delays, throughout their formative years.

As the role of a parent becomes one of a caregiver, it can be overwhelming for parents and children alike, particularly if money, time, access, or any combination of those are in short supply.

Advanced Parenting: Advice for Helping Kids Through Diagnoses, Differences, and Mental Health Challenges

Solution

As a balm, Dr. Kelly Fradin offers Advanced Parenting, based on her experience as a complex-care pediatrician.

Advanced Parenting will help families from the beginning of their journey, helping parents to decide when a child needs help, accepting the implications of a challenge, obtaining a correct diagnosis, learning about the issue, building a treatment team and coming up with a comprehensive plan.

Dr. Fradin explores how a child struggling can affect the entire family dynamic including the parent’s relationships and the siblings overall well-being, and with her experience as a complex care pediatrician, she will help parents avoid common mistakes.

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Praise

This book is a must-read for any parent struggling through a complicated parenting problem. Dr. Fradin offers an invaluable resource for parents and caregivers facing significant challenges with their children’s health.

Emily Oster

PhD, New York Times Bestselling author of Cribsheet and Expecting Better

Dr. Kelly Fradin is a godsend to parents whose kids are facing almost any kind of challenge — long term, short term, medical, emotional, you name it. This book is going to make you feel braver, smarter, and, oddly enough, realistic and… READ MORE

Lenore Skenazy

president of Let Grow, founder of the Free-Range Kids movement

There’s no book like this! In these pages, Dr. Kelly Fradin weaves hope and wisdom with rock-solid I’ve-been-there-too dependability into every suggestion and recommendation she makes. In this unique and beautiful book, Dr. Fradin speaks… READ MORE

Edward Hallowell, MD

author of Driven to Distraction

Dr. Fradin writes with compassion and knowing. Advanced Parenting is a salve for those who unexpectedly find themselves facing a complicated parenting journey. More than that, it serves as a much-needed reminder that… READ MORE

Dr. Pooja Lakshmin MD

psychiatrist, author of Real Self-Care, and CEO + Founder of Gemma

Advanced Parenting gives parents the lens, skill, and confidence to navigate their child’s medical challenges. As both a parent of a child with chronic health issues, and as a pediatric mental health professional, I applaud Dr. Fradin’s… READ MORE

Тina Payne Bryson, LCSW, Ph.D.

New York Times Bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child & No-Drama Discipline, and author of The Bottom Line for Baby

Parenting is hard no matter what, but it can be infinitely more complex if you’re raising a child with a difference or challenging diagnosis. Advanced Parenting is a thorough and thoughtful book that has all the information you need to support your entire family.

Melinda Wenner Moyer

New York Times Bestselling author of How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes

This is the most essential arsenal in the extra-challenged parent’s toolbox. Dr. Fradin’s expert advice, empathy, and personal connection to those she hasn’t even met yet makes her the person who should be holding… READ MORE

Zibby Owens

of the Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books podcast; author of Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature and Princess Charming

About THE AUTHOR

Dr. Kelly Fradin is a pediatrician, mother of two, and child advocate based in New York City. She was inspired to become a doctor because of her experience surviving childhood cancer.

A graduate of Harvard College and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, she has dedicated her career to caring for children with complex medical conditions in many situations including academic clinics, private practice, inpatient units and schools.

She shares realistic and empowering parenting advice and children’s health information on her instagram account @AdviceIGiveMyFriends and in her first book Parenting in a Pandemic: How to help your family through COVID-19.

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Everything posted is my opinion and doesn’t represent the opinion of my current or prior employer. All patient references in stories are fictionalized (new gender, different issue, etc) to protect privacy. Recommendations are made in a generic way intended for education. The ideas I have may not fit every child or every family. Parents should use their judgment and ask their own doctors if they feel something doesn’t make sense or may not be safe in their specific situation. I am not your child’s doctor, and this is not medical advice.

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