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Don't Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children
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Rating:  - Excellent simple advice
This book is written for the everyday common person struggling with a family member, specifically kids, with addiction. While it was written regarding children it can be applied to any family member. I bought this for another family member who has a child with an addiction but found there were many tools for me to use in the situation. I would highly recommend it for those who are ready to change the way they relate to their children with addictions.
Rating: - Changed my life!
This is the most helpful book I have read - ever. I had been driven to my knees by an addicted child, and this book was a literal life saver.
This book gave me the tools needed to protect myself and my family, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. I got ideas on how to change myself in positive ways, and my improved behavior in turn was an asset to the addict in the family.
The book is a quick and easy read. It gives information on expectations, setting boundaries, overindulging our kids, detaching from an addict, and dealing with the interference from others. There is also a section on where to get additional support and help.
I carry this book with me and refer to it periodically. I recommend it highly.
Rating: - Loving Tough Guide for dealing with substance abuse!
This book should be required reading for men, women and children old enough to understand it. This is undoubtedly one of the best books I have ever read in dealing with anyone suffering from substance abuse. It shows you have to love enough to let go and stand strong if you are ever to do youself or the addict any good and this little book is really huge in bringing it home!
Rating:  - Good book
Not the best writer in the world. The first few chapters made me want to shelf the book. But, I continued on and it got much better. Maybe he needed to warm up or something??? Anyway, the second half of the book is good and he makes some good points. He also gives some good techniques you can apply right away if you chose to do so. So, it was worth the read. There are so few choices in this subject matter and so few well written ones. His is above average, but not superb.
Rating: - Worth the "wait" in gold
I waited a few months to acquire, "Don't Let your Kids Kill You...," due to the book being temporarily out of print. How fortunate for me that I did not give in to impatience and cancel my order.
Rubin's book is analagous to sitting down with a compassionate, insightful elder whose advice you treasure dearly. Although the author is not an old man by any standards, he is a wise one. Instead of filling the pages with predictable 12-step buzzwords and phrases, he repackages the wisdom in an engaging style. More importantly, Rubin gives us something that has been elusive and wanting in the addiction genre of therapeutic/self-help books, and that is "humor."
I found myself chuckling with recognition at some of Rubin's wryly observed patterns of behavior often exhibited by the addicted person. When was the last time you were able to laugh at anything, let alone your addicted child's pitiful but often absurdly comical behavior?
Charles Rubin's book is one of its kind. My only regret in purchasing this book is that I didn't do it sooner.
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