Parler pour que les ados écoutent, écouter pour que les ados parlent

Translation of : How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk (2012).
Adele Faber et Elaine Mazlish

Summary

Why quarrel with the children when you can faireautrement?

Based on recent insights into psychology, this book presents innovative ways to solve problems encountered in any parent-child relationship. It puts forward a lucid approach, sensitive and respectful, resulting in less stress and more gratification for parents as for children. There are techniques for both concrete, practical and above all effective. It works, the results are there! Charming cartoons illustrate how the communication skills applicable in everyday life.

Parents learn how to:

    to go with the negative feelings of the child, frustrations, disappointments, anger, etc.
    suciter desire to cooperate
    set firm limits while maintaining a climate of openness
    avoid recourse to punishment
    promote the positive image of the child
    resolving family disputes in a peaceful atmosphere

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish present here, the result of their own experience and that of many other parents.

Small extract from the very beginning of the book:

I was a wonderful mother before having children. I was an expert at finding the cause of the problems that parents may have with their offspring. Then I had three good to me.

The Living with real children is enough to make you modest. Every morning I said to myself today, that will change. But the morning brought a variant of the previous morning.

    You have given him more than me!
    It is a pink glass, I want a blue glass.
    This porridge is disgusting!
    He hit me.
    I've never touched!
    I will not go in my room.
    You're not mn boss!

Ultimately, they have exhausted me. And even if it was the last thing I dreamed, I enrolled in a workshop for parents, a workshop led by Dr. Haim Ginott ...

Translated into more than twenty languages, the book has received enthusiastic welcome everywhere. Easy to read, it is in everyone.

351 pages