CD-Simon & Schuster Australia: Get your kids' cooperation... without arguing. Morning hassles and bedtime battles disappear when you apply the communication techniques these experts have been teaching parents nationwide. Even if you've felt you had no other alternative than to lecture or criticize, you'll be able to reduce the wear and tear on yourself and your family with this practical program. Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish— once frustrated mothers themselves— use real-life situations to show how you can respect and respond to your child's feelings and satisfy your own needs.
You'll learn to:
Avoid turning simple conversations into arguments
Instruct rather than criticize when correcting your child
Choose effective alternatives to punishment
Show your child how to make amends
Allow him to experience the direct consequences of his actions
See immediate changes in your relationship with your children— changes that will mean the difference between bad feelings and good ones; between fighting and loving.
About the Author
Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish are internationally acclaimed, award-winning experts on parent-child communications. Their books have sold over three million copies and have been printed in over a dozen languages. Both authors have three grown up children and live in New York
