How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
The most practical parenting communication book ever written. Still.
For you if
you want to actually communicate with your child rather than talk at them and need someone to show you the specific difference
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First published in 1980 and never superseded. Faber and Mazlish were students of the child psychologist Haim Ginott and distilled his approach into the most practical communication guide ever written for parents. The core insight: children's feelings need to be acknowledged before they can hear anything else. The book is full of comic-strip illustrations showing exactly what this looks like in practice — the wrong response and the right one, side by side. Not about manipulation or technique. About respect. The most widely used parenting communication book in the world for a reason.
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