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How to Be the Parent You Always Wanted to Be
- Narrated by: Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Parenting & Families
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Summary
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's down-to-earth, respectful approach to parenting has improved the lives of countless families throughout the world. Now, the authors' wisdom and advice are collected in this concise new edition of How to Be the Parent You Always Wanted to Be - an essential workbook and audio guide to their widely embraced and empowering methods of parenting - uniquely designed for busy parents on the go. Faber and Mazlish address the struggles parents face every day. By listening to this recording and doing the workbook exercises, you'll learn how to:
- Deal with your children's strong emotions
- Set firm limits and still maintain goodwill
- Express your angry feelings without being hurtful
- Engage your children's cooperation
- Resolve family conflicts peacefully
Loaded with real-life stories and answers to commonly asked questions, this new multimedia edition demonstrates simple, proven skills that can make relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding.
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- louonesie
- 01-11-18
too short!
I thought the book had some good ideas it was just incredibly short which was disappointing.
2 people found this helpful
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- MotherOfAbundance
- 01-04-16
Very helpful
Full of tips that can be easily implemented. Just need to ensure that you're familiar with the principals.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-01-21
Very useful for all parents with small children
This book describes a method to improve the communication between parents and children. It can be illuminating, and it is certainly worth trying by parents who are having behavioural issues with their children.
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- Mr Steven Lane
- 29-01-20
short, sweet and super practical
loved it, the simplicity, the clarity and the compassionate intent from the authors. it's a very short book which makes the information ready to absorb.
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- abeer
- 07-02-19
wounderful book, must read for every parent.
loved it, the skills need practice but really worth, amazing, great, brilliant , practical tips
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- Eyal Levin
- 13-05-15
Summery of 'How to Talk'
If you listened to 'How to Talk', you don't need this one. A lot of stuff are the same.
10 people found this helpful
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- Danny Howell
- 30-12-17
For parents of toddlers
This is a good read for parents of toddlers and pre-teens. Not recommended for parents of teens.
3 people found this helpful
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- Matt Kixmoeller
- 07-01-15
For practical applications
This book is by far the best parenting book I have read. Many parenting books talk about why children behave and talk in certain ways without recommendations on what to do. This book is full of practical applications. I put ticket only liked various demonstrations of how things typically go versus what we could do differently. I would recommend this book to anyone who are struggling as to how to talk to their kids.
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- Jill
- 27-06-17
Good insight bad narration
The child's voice in the narration made me cringe and made it hard to listen too:)
1 person found this helpful
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- eng.sabbar
- 22-03-15
Real life book
Real kids behavior problems
Real applicable solutions
Very helpful to us
I strongly recommend it
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- Kyliak
- 14-06-22
Need more
It cut off suddenly in the end. Did they run out of tape.
A final chapter with a summery or something is defiantly missing. But it was still good.
It gave you something to think about. But it feels very unfinished. More like a podcast I paid for then a book.
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- Carolynn Suga
- 18-04-22
great refresher!
I love this book. The comics help a lot. I know the scenarios all too well, and the conversations are so helpful as examples. It's also a short and sweet version of their other books How To TalK So Kids Will Listen.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-01-21
These lessons apply to children and adults.
Key takeaways are to acknowledge others feelings (even if irrational) you can’t use adult logic and reasoning with young children. They haven’t developed this skill yet. Then set clear boundaries and be consistent at upholding them. Consistent feedback is key. They also highlight the importance of being calm, clear and non-judge mental. More like a coach or mentor rather than authority figure. You want to aim for mutual understanding and to help your kids self regulate. Not just compliance.
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- Carol
- 12-07-19
MUY útil
Excelente guía para comunicarse con otros, no solo niños. Me gustaría tener más libros de las autorías disponibles.
An excellent guide to communicate with people, not just with children. I would like to have more materials of these authors available in this platform.
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- mary
- 15-03-19
Useful
I am not sure it’s thorough, however, it was useful. I liked the simplicity and role play.