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    How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
    How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
    How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
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    How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

    Written by Joanna Faber and Julie King

    Narrated by Heather Alicia Simms, Michele Pawk, Candace Thaxton and

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    OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD

    A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed “The Parenting Bible.”

    For nearly forty years, parents have turned to How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk for its respectful and effective solutions to the unending challenges of raising children. Now, in response to growing demand, Adele’s daughter, Joanna Faber, along with Julie King, tailor How to Talk’s powerful communication skills to parents of children ages two to seven.

    Faber and King, each a parenting expert in her own right, share their wisdom accumulated over years of conducting How To Talk workshops with parents, teachers, and pediatricians. With a lively combination of storytelling, cartoons, and observations from their workshops, they provide concrete tools and tips that will transform your relationship with the children in your life.

    What do you do with a little kid who…won’t brush her teeth…screams in his car seat…pinches the baby...refuses to eat vegetables…throws books in the library...runs rampant in the supermarket? Organized by common challenges and conflicts, this book is an essential manual of communication strategies, including a chapter that addresses the special needs of children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders.

    This user-friendly guide will empower parents and caregivers of young children to forge rewarding, joyful relationships with terrible two-year-olds, truculent three-year-olds, ferocious four-year-olds, foolhardy five-year-olds, self-centered six-year-olds, and the occasional semi-civilized seven-year-old. And, it will help little kids grow into self-reliant big kids who are cooperative and connected to their parents, teachers, siblings, and peers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 10, 2017
    ISBN9781508221937
    Author

    Joanna Faber

    Joanna Faber is the author, along with Julie King, of the book, How To Talk When Kids Won’t Listen, as well as the bestselling book How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen, which has been translated into 22 languages worldwide.  Joanna and Julie created the companion app, HOW TO TALK: Parenting Tips in Your Pocket, as well as the app Parenting Hero. Joanna also wrote a new afterword for the thirtieth anniversary edition of the classic book, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids WIl Talk, coauthored by her mother, Adele Faber. Joanna contributed heavily to her mother’s book, How to Talk So Kids Can Learn, at Home and in School, with her frontline experience in the classroom as a bilingual special education teacher in West Harlem. Joanna lectures and conducts workshops across the US and internationally for parents, educators, and other professionals who work with children. She and her husband raised three sons in the Hudson Valley region of New York, along with dogs, cats, and an assortment of chickens. Visit her at How-to-Talk.com. 

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    • 5/5
      This book is full of great parenting principles that really ought to be common sense but weren't for me. It really helped me realize that make actions make my kid who they are and how they act. I am in control. This works!

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is so wonderfull! Many god tips and important things!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      My daughter is almost 4, i started to see the improvement in our relationship and i had less frustration during hearing the very first chapters of this book, and it became even better and better as i went further towards the end of the book, it has changed A LOT.. thank you

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Easy to read and full with great ideas to try
    • 5/5
      Absolutely loved this Audiobook! Thank you so much for this valuable information. Lots of love from Australia ??❤
    • 5/5
      Absolutely loved this Audiobook. Thank you so much for this valuable information. Lots of love from an Australian ??❤
    • 5/5
      Excellent book but the best thing is the narrators, they made the book easy, funny and alive. Really I enjoyed the way the narrators was telling the story, big thanks to them
    • 3/5
      Acknowledge feelings! That's my biggest take away from this book.
      It was a very interesting read and as a new parent, I am always looking for something, anything that will help me raise a well adjusted, less tempermental child. While this good had some good suggestions, some of which I have used, some of it is a little impractical to me, but I won't completely knock it till I try them.

      On another note, I have used some of these techniques and the adults I interact with, namely my husband and I have actually had some positive results.

      Definitely worth a read if you have kids.
    • 5/5
      Practical tips given and summaries at the end of each chapter. Very helpful.
    • 5/5
      SUCH a rich, practical book. Highly recommend to all parents, caretakers, and teachers. It’s challenging, but even if you don’t agree with everything in it, there’s plenty to learn. ❤️
    • 5/5
      lots of information which means a lot to master. add this to your book to relisten to each year.
    • 5/5
      It is an excellent book , very helpful and I highly recommend it.
    • 5/5
      Really enjoyed this. Tried some of the stuff with my outrageously confident 3 year old that thinks she's 30 and sometimes it works. I'll take the wins where I can get them ?
    • 5/5
      Super useful tools, I live this book and recommend it to every parent.
    • 2/5
      While the author offers some good tips and helpful suggestions, I can't agree with some of her ideas like never punishing kids in any shape or form. Perhaps the philosophy she subscribes to is responsible of the generation of entitled kids who think the world should revolve around them, want all the privileges but no responsibilities, and need counseling and time off school because the candidate they supported lost the election.
    • 3/5
      Good book, with a lot of really good info on communicating with children (and honestly just communication in general).

      The original book was written decades ago, and presents all the topics and information to the reader, to incredible success. This book, is actually a follow up, and uses all the information in the real world, with real examples. It tries to make it much more applicable and memorable.

      I was looking for the original and accidentally grabbed this one instead, and I can't say I'm disappointed. The applications and examples made the info easy to digest, but I have no idea how it compares to the original. There were a few chapters where they overdid it with the examples, and it got a little repetitive.
    • 5/5
      This book is incredibly helpful.
    • 4/5
      Interesting parenting advice. I think some things are more helpful than others. You would certainly need to be incredibly patient to make most of these tips work. Regardless, there are some things I hope I remember in the year of a toddler meltdown. 1) Acknowledge feelings2) Adjust expectations 3) Be playful 4) Put the child in charge 5) Try problem solving 6) Offer a choice7) Give information
    • 4/5
      I have a four year old, who was three when I read this book, and man, was it necessary. They tell you about the “terrible twos”, but then they keep the biggest secret — THREE IS EVEN WORSE. Three year olds are tiny little terrorists, and I needed all the help I could get to negotiate my way through that year.How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen gives you lots of simple techniques for communicating with your little kid, whether you’re trying to get them to do something, get them not to do something, or just get along. It is full of real world examples that the authors have culled from the classes they’ve done throughout the years, which I found really helpful. It turns out, your kid probably isn’t unique — there are plenty of others out there doing the same things they are doing. One thing I especially liked is that they summarize each chapter into bullet points at the end. Something you could easily print out and tape to your fridge for reference.So if you too are living with a tiny terrorist, give this book a shot! All you parents out there are doing a good job.Also, age four is SO MUCH BETTER.