How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk ANNOTATION
"provides communication methods to help cope with a child's negative feelings, like frustration, disappointment, anger, etc...also methods for expressing anger without being hurtful, and for engaging a child's willing cooperation."
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The successful parenting workshops pioneered by leading experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, based on the work of the late child psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott, have won the nationwide praise of mothers, fathers, and professional educators - for the simple reason that they get results! Faber and Mazlish offer skills based on the new psychological insights, their own experiences as parents, and what they have learned from parents throughout the country.
SYNOPSIS
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
provides all the know-how required for happier, more constructive parent-child
relations. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the
world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes
interaction with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. The
Christopher Award-winning authors share their latest insights and suggestions
based on feedback they've received over the years. Their real-world methods
offer children's negative feelings; express anger without being hurtful; set
firm limits and maintain goodwill; use alternatives to punishment; resolve
family conflicts peacefully.