How to be the Parent You Always Wanted to be

Author(s): Adele Faber

Parenting Guides

How To Be The Parent You Always Wanted To Be features fresh stories, cartoon illustrations, answers to commonly asked questions, exercises designed to sharpen your parenting skills, and audio dramatizations that demonstrate the skills in action. It addresses struggles parents face every day, in a popular culture saturated with sarcasm, put-downs, preaching, threats, name-calling, and accusations. Loaded with practical wisdom and proven methods, this new multi-media edition demonstrates simple, proven skills that make relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. Even if you never participated in a Faber/Mazlish workshop or read any of their award-winning books, you'll strengthen your ability to: - deal with your children's strong emotions - set firm limits and still maintain good will - express your angry feelings without being hurtful - engage your children's cooperation - resolve family conflicts peacefully


Product Information

Of their previous parenting books: 'The ultimate sensible parenting guide.' Prima Baby 'The most useful book I read when my children were young.' Lesley Garner, The Telegraph 'A down to earth guide to shaping the parent-child relationship and resolving family conflicts.' The Guardian 'An excellent book for reassessing the way you talk to your children and, as one said, "putting it into practice isn't as hard as I imagined and the children respond so, so well.' Mumsnet "A down-to-earth book that offers valuable guidelines on how to make relationships with children less stressful and more rewarding." Books Magazine " - a new book that helps adults have calm, helpful conversations with children." Practical Pre-School "Parents - will find this a reassuring read with sensible advice about when to intervene and when to stand back." Parents in Touch

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, whose best-selling books include How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids will Talk and Siblings Without Rivalry, have developed "do-it-yourself" group workshop programs which have won the enthusiastic praise of parents and professionals worldwide. The author's practical, down-to-earth methods give adults the know-how they need to create relationships with children of all ages -- from tots to teens -- that are less stressful and far more rewarding.

General Fields

  • : 9781848124059
  • : Templar Publishing
  • : Piccadilly Press Ltd
  • : Contains Paperback and CD-ROM
  • : 01 April 2014
  • : 216mm X 135mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 May 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Adele Faber
  • : Book and CD
  • : 112
  • : illustrations