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How To Talk When Kids Won't Listen

Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, and Other Challenges of Childhood

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How To Talk When Kids Won't Listen

By: Joanna Faber, Julie King
Narrated by: Joanna Faber, Julie King, Mia Barron, Cynthia Farrell, George Newbern, Joy Osmanski, Candace Thaxton
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A respectful parenting guidebook from the mega-bestselling How To Talk series that applies trusted and effective communication strategies, positive discipline tools, and parent-child communication skills to the toughest challenges of raising children.

For forty years, readers have turned to Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish’s How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the book The Boston Globe called, “the parenting Bible,” for a respectful and practical approach to communication with children and mindful parenting. Expanding upon this work, Adele’s daughter, Joanna Faber, along with Julie King, coauthored the bestselling book, How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen. Now, Faber and King have tailored How to Talk’s tried and trusted communication strategies to some of the most challenging childhood moments.

From tantrums, whining, meltdowns, and defiance to technology, screen time limits, and digital dilemmas to talking to kids about tough topics, How to Talk When Kids Won’t Listen offers concrete strategies for these and many more difficult situations.

Part One introduces readers to the How to Talk “toolbox,” with whimsical cartoons demonstrating the basic communication skills and family communication strategies that will transform readers’ relationships with children in their lives. In Part Two, Joanna and Julie answer specific questions and share relatable stories, offering practical parenting tools for addressing issues such as homework hassles, sibling battles and sibling rivalry, power struggles, alternatives to punishment, and more through collaborative problem-solving and conflict resolution. Readers can turn directly to any topic of interest and find the help they need, with handy “reminder pages.”

Through the combination of lively stories from real parents and teachers, humorous illustrations, and entertaining exercises, How to Talk When Kids Won’t Listen offers real, positive parenting solutions to struggles familiar to every parent, grandparent, teacher, and anyone else who lives or works with children and wants to strengthen family relationships, build kids’ listening skills, and support emotional regulation. Communication & Social Skills Infants & Toddlers Teenagers Conflict Resolution Parenting & Families Relationships Personal Development Witty
Practical Tools • Effective Communication Techniques • Inclusive Content • Actionable Advice

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Special thanks for the remarks at the end about: sometimes parents can manage to follow 50% of the times some sometimes only 10%. It’s ok. Just try again and again. First book that have practical tools and not make if me feel I am the worst parent for not doing this or that or fir not reacting in the correct way.

Practical and down to earth tools

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This book gives very good information with useful examples. I loved it as both a parent and therapist who works with kids! I would recommend this book to all parents!

Such an Excellent Read!!

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I love how they talked about speaking to the feeling and acknowledging it, whilst correcting the behavior.

Speak to the feeling

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Not only do I feel more enlightened about how to communicate with my son, but I also feel like I have more tools about how to be a better communicator with my husband. I have learned through this book how powerful our words are and how much our choice of words MATTER

So insightful

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I heard this book for the second time. It is wonderful the clarity, and how it seemed I missed some points the first time. It has so many tools and examples!!

Great book, even the second time!!

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