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

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Generations of kids did not get their feelings validated, and yet they still became adults who knew who they are and what they feel. The classic business statement is: “I’m not sure we’re asking the right questions, solving the right problem. This might be the most empowering parenting book I've read about the age and stage of parenting that I (and most of my friends) am currently in!

If the child has come up with a solution, then they will want to test it out if they never get a chance to test out the solution then they will not want to play.But it won’t be so good when that boy is a teenager and isn’t obeying his mom and is too old to obey inanimate objects. This book is one that I don't think I'll ever forget, and already at 19 months, we're seeing great benefits with our son.

A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of the international best-seller The Boston Globe dubbed "The Parenting Bible". They’re really more of a free association, where we try to think of a way to make the wrongdoer suffer. As a father of 8 children, he coached Little League sports for 20 years, and together with his wife Martha has written more than 40 best-selling books and countless articles on nutrition, parenting, and healthy aging. In the example of waking up from a headache because you didn’t get enough sleep last night, instead of saying “stop complaining” or giving advice for improvement, the authors say it’s better to say, “What we need is a nice snowstorm to shut down the school” (6).I feel like if you tried the "reflect their feelings and use the word frustrating a lot" method on anyone over 3 they would start to realize you're being a robot pretty quickly but then again I dropped out of social work school so I'm inherently biased against using the phrase "that sounds FRUSTRATING!