How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 [First Scribner Edition] 9781501131639, 9781501131653, 9781501131660

Table of contents :
Foreword, by Adele Faber

How It All Started, by Julie & Joanna

A Note from the Authors

PART I

THE ESSENTIAL TOOLBOX

Chapter One

Tools for Handling Emotions . . . What’s All the Fuss about Feelings?

—When kids don’t feel right, they can’t behave right

Chapter Two

Tools for Engaging Cooperation . . . Feelings Schmeelings, She Has to Brush Her Teeth

—Getting kids to do what they have to do

Chapter Three

Tools for Resolving Conflict . . . Avoiding Combat on the Home Front

—Replacing punishment with more peaceful, effective solutions

Chapter Four

Tools for Praise and Appreciation . . . Not All Odes Are Equal

—Ways to praise that will help, not hinder

Chapter Five

Tools for Kids Who Are Differently Wired . . . Will This Work with My Kid?

—Modifications for kids with autism and sensory issues

Chapter Five and a Quarter

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

1 Food Fights—The Battle at the Kitchen Table

2 Morning Madness—Escaping the Intense Gravitational Pull of Your Home

3 Sibling Rivalry—Give the Baby Back!

4 Shopping with Children—Mayhem at the Market

5 Lies—Kids and the Creative Interpretation of Reality

6 Parents Have Feelings, Too

7 Tattling—Snitches and Whistle-Blowers

8 Cleanup—The Dirtiest Word

9 Doctor’s Orders—Medicine, Shots, Blood Draws, and Other Horrors

10 Shy Kids—Fear of Friendly Folks

11 Little Runaways—Kids Who Take Off in the Parking Lot and Other Public Places

12 Hitting, Pinching, Poking, Punching, Pushing—I Barely Touched Him!

13 Sleep—The Holy Grail

14 When Parents Get Angry!

15 Troubleshooting—When the Tools Don’t Work

THE END?

Acknowledgments

Additional Resources

About Joanna Faber and Julie King

Notes

Reminder Index

Index

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