The basic tools -- Understanding epilepsy -- The challenges of living with epilepsy -- Dealing with the demon at the dinner table -- Epilepsy goes to school -- Effects of focal epilepsy : a guide to brain organization -- The frontal lobes -- The temporal lobes -- The occipital and parietal lobes -- Changing challenges ; changing age -- Epilepsy during the first two years -- Epilepsy in the preschool years -- Epilepsy in the elementary school years -- Epilepsy in the adolescent years -- Some final words for parents.