How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk

By: Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

Narrated by: Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Internationally acclaimed parenting experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish have helped millions of families with their breakthrough, best-selling books How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Siblings Without Rivalry, and Liberated Parents, Liberated Children. Now, they return with a lively, down-to-earth guide that tackles the tough issues teens and parents face today. After years of research, lecturing, and feedback, Faber and Mazlish have developed an innovative approach to maintaining a candid, open, mutually respectful dialogue between parents and teens. It's a strategy that curbs conflict, reduces frustration, and promotes thoughtful communication about everything from curfews and drugs to schoolwork and sex.

Written in Faber and Mazlish's trademark accessible style, How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk takes you inside their acclaimed workshops where you will hear, in the words of both parents and teens, what's on the minds of families today. Packed with suggestions that are easy to implement, and reinforced with stories, this indispensable volume will help build a foundation for a healthy relationship that puts the emphasis on rapport rather than reprisals. From age-old concerns about cliques and dating to contemporary worries about binge drinking and cyberbullying, Faber and Mazlish help parents tackle problems before they get out of hand. In their warm, lucid, unpatronizing manner, the authors show families how to be supportive and stay connected during the challenging teenage years.

©2005 Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers

Very good examples on how to talk to teens

I don’t have kids, but most of my friends do. I wanted to tap on right ways to talk to them.

Beautifully narrated, very helpful and clear examples of good and bad ways both, parents and teens communicate.

I will listen to it over and over until speaking like this, becomes my way of expressing myself. ;P

wish I had read this years ago

extremely valuable advice which I wish I had learned earlier. I wasn't a terrible parent but I could have been a lot better had I known these skills. but I learned them now and I'm putting them into practice now and my grown-up children are appreciative of it

Learnt alot

Great listen, advice that can be applied easily on a daily basis, we don’t have to have all our ducks inline to apply this books advice.

Helpful

My 13 year old walked in the room while listening to this. I tested some of the suggested verbiage and to my surprise it worked. I got feed back from my child. He actually gave me an answer. I was expecting the same reaction I always get ( short non-informational responses). Not only that but he returned a while later and set down for a small chat. WOW is all I can say.
Can’t wait to apply this in our everyday conversations. I hope this is a break through, I really think my child wants to communicate but my approach always left off with him not speaking because I was so direct with my thoughts feels and wants ( I gave life lessons and leachers) then would say what you you think? I gave him no room to think, he already know where I stood and felt no need to give his opinion. I see this now.

Great Advice for a Parent of Teens!

As a parent of two teenage boys and two future teen girls, I found this extremely helpful!

great tips

I really appreciated the examples. This versus that. The storytelling & actual real life struggles.

Insightful and informative!

A must read/ listen for every parent of teen(s). Listen and take action! Our babies need us to be equipped and willing to wade into the deep with them to help them navigate their worlds. This book helps immensely.

Insiteful, helpful & hopeful bk 4 parents of teens

Loved it!! The authors give real life examples of struggles between parents & teens. Followed with great examples of how to effectively communicate with your teens!!!

Incredibly helpful!

Love all of the How to Talk books and Siblings Without Rivalry too! My 10 year old twin girls have responded wonderfully to these techniques!

Overall a good reminder of how to treat your teens

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I work with teen girls so I thought this book would be helpful for work. The book has some good points and good practices for talking to teens. This stuff should be common scence, but it is not.