How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
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Average rating4.3
You can stop fighting with your children! Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be more effective with your children—and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. Now, in this thirtieth-anniversary edition, these award-winning experts share their latest insights and suggestions based on feedback they’ve received over the years.
Their methods of communication—illustrated with delightful cartoons showing the skills in action—offer innovative ways to solve common problems. You’ll learn how to:
* Cope with your child’s negative feelings—frustration, disappointment, anger, etc.
* Express your anger without being hurtful
* Engage your child’s willing cooperation
* Set firm limits and still maintain goodwill
* Use alternatives to punishment
* Resolve family conflicts peacefully
Reviews with the most likes.
Okay, so I started this book three and a half years ago and got about halfway through. Recently, I picked it up and read it through from the beginning to the end.
What I like about this book is that it reminds me to treat my boy as a person who has his own thoughts and feelings. The authors take this into account while offering advice on ways that give children practice resolving conflict in healthy, constructive ways.
Because children are people who are self aware and have their own thoughts and ideas and personalities, each is going to respond in different ways. As the authors point out, this doesn't change your kid into a unicorn child who always ones and is never difficult. Nor does the advice turn us into picture perfect parents who never show a hint of emotional distress. Having tools to resolve conflict can help us to avoid shaming and blaming and gaming to a sometimes rocky road of conflict resolution that encourages building the relationship rather than resentment.
