How to Be the Parent You Always Wanted to Be

By: Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

Narrated by: Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

Length: 1 hr and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's down-to-earth, respectful approach to parenting has improved the lives of countless families throughout the world. Now, the authors' wisdom and advice are collected in this concise new edition of How to Be the Parent You Always Wanted to Be - an essential workbook and audio guide to their widely embraced and empowering methods of parenting - uniquely designed for busy parents on the go.

Faber and Mazlish address the struggles parents face every day. By listening to this recording and doing the workbook exercises, you'll learn how to:

• Deal with your children's strong emotions
• Set firm limits and still maintain goodwill
• Express your angry feelings without being hurtful
• Engage your children's cooperation
• Resolve family conflicts peacefully

Loaded with real-life stories and answers to commonly asked questions, this new multimedia edition demonstrates simple, proven skills that can make relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding.

©2013 Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish (P)2013 Simon & Schuster

Summery of 'How to Talk'

If you listened to 'How to Talk', you don't need this one. A lot of stuff are the same.

For parents of toddlers

This is a good read for parents of toddlers and pre-teens. Not recommended for parents of teens.

For practical applications

This book is by far the best parenting book I have read. Many parenting books talk about why children behave and talk in certain ways without recommendations on what to do. This book is full of practical applications. I put ticket only liked various demonstrations of how things typically go versus what we could do differently. I would recommend this book to anyone who are struggling as to how to talk to their kids.

Good insight bad narration

The child's voice in the narration made me cringe and made it hard to listen too:)

Real life book

Real kids behavior problems
Real applicable solutions
Very helpful to us
I strongly recommend it
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Better ways of parenting

This book amazed me with more better ways of wording everything better I already do most of the stuff they said in the book with my 2 yr old daughter and it works so much better this book taught me more ways of expressing my feelings towards how my daughter acts and explaining why it makes me feel the way I feel at that moment 10/10 recommend

Need more

It cut off suddenly in the end. Did they run out of tape.

A final chapter with a summery or something is defiantly missing. But it was still good.

It gave you something to think about. But it feels very unfinished. More like a podcast I paid for then a book.

great refresher!

I love this book. The comics help a lot. I know the scenarios all too well, and the conversations are so helpful as examples. It's also a short and sweet version of their other books How To TalK So Kids Will Listen.

These lessons apply to children and adults.

Key takeaways are to acknowledge others feelings (even if irrational) you can’t use adult logic and reasoning with young children. They haven’t developed this skill yet. Then set clear boundaries and be consistent at upholding them. Consistent feedback is key. They also highlight the importance of being calm, clear and non-judge mental. More like a coach or mentor rather than authority figure. You want to aim for mutual understanding and to help your kids self regulate. Not just compliance.