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How to talk when kids won't listen whining, fighting, meltdowns, defiance, and other challenges of childhood

"An all-new guide from the mega-bestselling How To Talk series applies trusted and effective communication strategies 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, t...

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Main Authors: Faber, Joanna (Author), King, Julie (Parent educator) (Author)
Other Authors: Wimberly, Emily (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
Edition:First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Series:How to talk series (Simon and Schuster, Inc.)
Subjects:
Parenting.
Parent and child.
Interpersonal communication in children.
Problem children.
Self-help publications.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part one: The basic communication tools. Dealing with feelings - Why can't they just be happy?
  • Cooperative kids - The impossible dream? Why can't they just do what we tell them to do?
  • None of this is working! - The problem with chapter two
  • The problem with punishment - and what to do instead
  • Praise and its pitfalls - Why do they act so bad when we tell them they're good?
  • Part two: Trouble in paradise. Section I: Getting through the day. Enough already! - When kids are completely unreasonable
  • How to listen when kids won't talk - "How was your day?" Good. "What'd you do?" Nothing.
  • Homework hassles - Is my kid the only one weeping over the worksheet?
  • All wound up and they won't calm down
  • Section II: Unnecessary roughness. Help! My kids are fighting! - Peacekeeping on the home front
  • Help! My kid is hitting me! - The art of self-defense against small combatants
  • Animal etiquette - Kids and creatures
  • Section III: Anxiety, fears, and meltdowns. Fears - Dinosaurs, spiders, and ants...oh my!
  • Temper tantrum hotline
  • Separation sadness
  • Section IV: Bat attitudes - Complaining, whining, defiance, and other unsociable behaviors. Whining - The sound that drives you insane
  • Sore losers - The competition conundrum
  • Name-calling and "bad" language
  • Section V: Conflict resolution. Sharing - Mine, all mine!
  • That is not a toy - When kids want to "share" your stuff
  • The digital dilemma (part 1) - Managing screen time with younger children
  • The digital dilemma (part 2) - Screens and older children
  • Does punishment prepare kids for "real life"?
  • Section VI: Bedtime & bathroom battles. Toothbrushing - The most terrible torture
  • Potty power struggles
  • Section VII: Touchy topics. Divorce - Helping children cope with change and loss
  • Protecting kids from problematic people
  • Sex - It's only a three-letter word
  • Too much hugging - When affection is nonconsensual
  • Section VIII: Troubleshooting. The trouble with you!
  • The trouble with but
  • The trouble with "say you're sorry".

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