The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene (Audiobook I am producing) -Adult and Child Voices
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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the waffle episode, Jennifer, age 11 wakes up, makes her bed, looks around her room to make sure everything is in its place and heads into the kitchen to make herself breakfast. She peers into the freezer, removes the container frozen waffles and count six waffles thinking to herself, I don't have three waffles this morning and three tomorrow morning, Jennifer toast her three waffles and sits down to eat. Moments later, her mother in five year old brother Adam, entered the kitchen, and the mother asks Adam what he liked to eat for breakfast. Adam responds waffles, and the mother reaches into the freezer for the waffles. Jennifer, who has been listening intently, explodes. He can't have the frozen waffles, Jennifer screams, her face suddenly reddening. Why not ask the mother her voice and polls rising at a loss for an explanation of Jennifer's behaviour? I was going to have those waffles tomorrow morning, Jennifer screams, jumping out of her chair. I'm not telling your brother. He can't have waffles! The mother yells back. He can't have them! Screams Jennifer, now face to face with her mother, the mother weary of the physical and verbal aggression of which her daughter is capable during these moments, desperately asks at him if there might be something else he would consider eating off bulls. Adam whimpers cowering behind his mother, Jennifer, her frustration and agitation at a peak, pushes her mother out of the way, seizes the container frozen waffles, then slams a freezer door shut, pushes over a kitchen chair, grabs her plate of toasted waffles and stocks to her room. Her brother and mother begin to cry. Jennifer's family members have endeared thousands of such explosions. In many instances, the explosions are more prolonged and intense, involving more physical or verbal aggression than the one described above. When Jennifer was eight, she kicked out the front windshield of the family car. Mental health professionals have bestowed myriad diagnoses. Oppositional, defiant disorder, bipolar disorder, intermittent explosive disorder.