Book Description
In Hearing Is Believing, award-winning author Elisa Medhus argues that even seemingly harmless phrases such as "You're such a good girl" can encourage children to become approval seekers, thwart their ability to reason, or both. Over time, these children become less inclined to trust their parents' guidance and internalize their values. Exposing potentially harmful words and phrases, many that may surprise readers, this book suggests language changes that are simple to implement and keep up. Stories illustrate positive results.
Hearing Is Believing: How Words Can Make or Break Our Kids ANNOTATION
Exposing potentially harmful words and phrases, many that may surprise readers, this book suggests language changes that are simple to implement and keep up.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
In Hearing Is Believing, award-winning author Elisa Medhus argues that even seemingly harmless phrases such as "You're such a good girl" can encourage children to become approval seekers, thwart their ability to reason, or both. Over time, these children become less inclined to trust their parents' guidance and internalize their values. Exposing potentially harmful words and phrases, many that may surprise readers, this book suggests language changes that are simple to implement and keep up. Stories illustrate positive results.
SYNOPSIS
Medical doctor Medhus argues that the proper choice of words in adult- child communication can help adults avoid the two main errors of child-rasing: training children to make choices based on outside approval and hindering the natural development of their reasoning abilities. These errors can lead to low self-esteem, fear of failure, dependency, and other problems. She lists common adult uses of reactive, judgmental, dominating, and other negative words and provides alternatives that avoid the common pitfalls. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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