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

Joanna Faber, Julie King

Simon and Schuster, Jan 10, 2017 - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS - 432 pages

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 over thirty-five 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 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 and a broad variety of professionals. With a lively combination of storytelling, cartoons, and fly-on-the-wall discussions from their workshops, they 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 in his car seat…pinches the baby...refuses to eat vegetables…throws books in the library...runs rampant in the supermarket? Organized according to common challenges and conflicts, this book is an essential emergency first-aid 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.

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User Review  - bookworm12 - LibraryThing

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 ...

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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 ...

Contents

• Chapter Three: 85
• Chapter Four: 135
• PART II: 213
• Morning MadnessEscaping the Intense: 231
• Sibling RivalryGive the Baby Back 4 Shopping with ChildrenMayhem at the Market 241 257: 241
• LiesKids and the Creative Interpretation of Reality: 263
• Parents Have Feelings Too: 275
• TattlingSnitches and WhistleBlowers: 283
• CleanupThe Dirtiest Word: 291
• Doctors OrdersMedicine Shots Blood Draws: 301
• Shy KidsFear of Friendly Folks: 313
• Little RunawaysKids Who Take Off in: 321
• Hitting Pinching Poking Punching Pushing: 331
• SleepThe Holy Grail: 339
• When Parents Get Angry: 357
• TroubleshootingWhen the Tools Dont Work: 369
• THE END?: 385

About the author

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.

Julie King is the author, along with Joanna Faber, 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. Julie and Joanna created the companion app, HOW TO TALK: Parenting Tips in Your Pocket, as well as the app Parenting Hero. Julie has been educating and supporting parents since 1995. In addition to consulting with individual parents and couples, she speaks and leads workshops online and in-person for schools, nonprofits, businesses and parent groups across the US and internationally. Julie received her AB from Princeton University and a JD from Yale Law School. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area where they are visited often by their her three grown children. Visit her at JulieKing.org, on Facebook @FaberandKing, or on Instagram @howtotalk.forparents.

Bibliographic information

• Title: How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7; The How To Talk Series
• Authors: Joanna Faber, Julie King
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2017
• ISBN: 1501131656, 9781501131653
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS; Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Infants & Toddlers; Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child; Self-Help / Emotions; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General