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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (How to Help Your Child) (How to Help Your Child) [Paperback]

Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish
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3 May 2001 How to Help Your Child
Get your kids' cooperation... without arguing. Morning hassles and bedtime battles disappear when you apply the communication techniques these experts have been teaching parents nationwide. Even if you've felt you had no other alternative than to lecture or criticize, you'll be able to reduce the wear and tear on yourself and your family with this practical program. Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish-- once frustrated mothers themselves-- use real-life situations to show how you can respect and respond to your child's feelings and satisfy your own needs.

You'll learn to:

Avoid turning simple conversations into arguments

Instruct rather than criticize when correcting your child

Choose effective alternatives to punishment

Show your child how to make amends

Allow him to experience the direct consequences of his actions

See immediate changes in your relationship with your children-- changes that will mean the difference between bad feelings and good ones; between fighting and loving.

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Product details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Piccadilly Press Ltd; New Ed edition (3 May 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1853407054
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853407055
  • Product Dimensions: 13 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (149 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 11,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Mumsnet Best Awards 2011 - Best parenting book
`An excellent book for reassessing the way you talk to your children and, as one said, "putting it into practice isn't as hard as I imagined and the children respond so, so well".' --Mumsnet, January 2011

About the Author

Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish are internationally acclaimed, award-winning experts on parent-child communications. Their books have sold over three million copies and have been printed in over a dozen languages. Both authors have three grown up children and live in New York --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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254 of 256 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars True to it's Title 6 Jan 2002
By Derrick
Format:Paperback
I thought this book might be about how to use praise and language to avoid facing discipline issues with children but it is not like that at all. It teaches parents to be authorative and send the right messages without micro managing their children. There is much good advice on how to recognize and change ineffective paterns of responding to your child. The suggested changes are fairly straight forward and common sense, but may require some practice. Fortunately thare are many well illustrated examples and practical exercises to reinforce these ideas. This book strictly sticks to the topic of comunication and establishing cooperation which makes it an excellent supplement to any parents existing parenting style. Teaches mutual respect without surrendering parental authourity. A very good read, I've heard nothing but positive feedback from other parents who have read this book.
I would also highly recommend the books "Ain't Misbehavin" by William P Garvey and "Setting Limits: How to Raise Responsibe Independent Children by Providing Clear Boundaries" by Robert J MacKenzie.
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366 of 371 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it! 19 May 2003
Format:Paperback
I am writing because the last review posted here was written August 2002 and I didn't want people browsing to get the impression that the book was no longer relevant or something. So you are in no doubt: you deal with children? you are losing your sanity? this book needs to be in YOUR home.

The central message is simple: respect children's feelings and they will respect yours. As you are looking for a parenting book, you probably think 'I DO respect their feelings, but the little brat still drives me crazy...' but actually this book shows that most of us continuously disrespect our children, and actually encourage them to behave the way they do. Free yourself from tyranny! Buy this book! Understand it, laugh with it, talk about it, try out the exercises.

A previous reviewer has criticised this book for not being easy-to-reference in a hurry. In the authors' defence: the book does encourage parents to make notes along the way and copy out the main points to remember for easy reference. Although you may think that takes time (of which you probably have little) it is actually a more effective way of learning, and let's face it, when you are in the midst of a parenting crisis, do you really want to turn around and start flicking through a book? If the message of the book really makes sense to you, then you'll be able to come up with a solution on the spur of the moment. This book encourages parents to be resourceful, self-sufficient, flexible and responsive to the immediate situation.

Indeed, I am so impressed with this book and the changes it has made in my relationship with my children that I have written this review. Now that's saying something!

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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best parenting book ever 14 April 2007
Format:Paperback
You know one of those books that makes you want to buy twenty of them and give them to people you know, as well as random strangers? Well, this is one of these. Excellent, practical and balenced advice for kids of 4+, urging parents to teach their children responsibility, get theem to do stuff without nagging and most of all share their true selves with their children. Please read it, it will change your life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I wish my parents had read it before I was born
Those skills should be a must for everyone. I think it will take a few generations before a general change occurs in our society, which rely heavily on carrots and sticks. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Good?? You've got to be kidding me!!
My mum bought this book to read because she felt that we were arguing to much. Being an 11 year old, I naturally thought 'well this should be interesting. Read more
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Published 1 month ago by P W Lowson
5.0 out of 5 stars First-rate advice
Excellent guide to how to communicate effectively with your child - or anyone else come that. The challenge will be remembering to put the principles into practice when in the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by C. Poulson
5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking
Still working my way through this but finding it very good. Techniques I have tried so far have been effective but it is hard work.
Published 1 month ago by MKT Caws
5.0 out of 5 stars Definately gets you thinking.
This book provides some brilliant examples that will get you thinking properly about what you are saying to your children and how that impacts on them. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Excellent book. I love the fact that it comes with cartoons too to explain a situation. I would recommend it to every parent.
Published 1 month ago by Yvon
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book!!
After the toddler years and with a sibling now in the family I was looking for a book to help me through the next stages of childhood and I'm so glad I chose this book. Read more
Published 1 month ago by C. Sanderson
4.0 out of 5 stars Listening to your children
Really great practical book full of really useful tips couldn't wait to put it into practice & really believe the advice works
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