How to talk so little kids will listen : a survival guide to life with children ages 2-7 /
With a combination of storytelling, cartoons, and fly-on-the-wall discussions from their workshops, Faber and King provide concrete tools and tips that will transform your relationship with the young kids in your life. What do you do with a little kid who ... won't brush her teeth ... screams i...
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New York :
Scribner,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Scribner edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Adele Faber
- Part I: The essential toolbox. Tools for handling emotions : what's all the fuss about feelings? : when kids don't feel right, they can't behave right
- Tools for engaging cooperation : feelings schmeelings, she has to brush her teeth : getting kids to do what they have to do
- Tools for resolving conflict : avoiding combat on the home front : replacing punishment with more peaceful, effective solutions
- Tools for praise and appreciation : not all odes are equal : ways to praise that will help, not hinder
- Tools for kids who are differently wired : will this work with my kid? : modifications for kids with autism and sensory issues
- The basics : you can't talk your way out of these : conditions under which the tools won't work
- Part II: The tools in action. Food fights : the battle at the kitchen table
- Morning madness : escaping the intense gravitational pull of your home
- Sibling rivalry : give the baby back!
- Shopping with children : mayhem at the market
- Lies : kids and the creative interpretation of reality
- Parents have feelings, too
- Tattling : snitches and whistle-blowers
- Cleanup : the dirtiest word
- Doctor's orders : medicine, shots, blood draws, and other horrors
- Shy kids : fear of friendly folks
- Little runaways : kids who take off in the parking lot and other public places
- Hitting, pinching, poking, punching, pushing : I barely touched him!
- Sleep : the holy grail
- When parents get angry!
- Troubleshooting : when the tools don't work.