Being the Parent You Want to be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting - Softcover

Page, Gary Screaton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892334070 ISBN 13: 9781892334077

Publisher: ebrandedbooks.com,US, 1999

Synopsis

Positive, effective communication with your children. What parent or caregiver wouldn't want that? Unfortunately, positive communication s aren't something everyone is born with! Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication S for Effective Parenting , teaches everyone who works with and cares for children 12 time-tested s that transform adult-child relations. Parenting styles vary greatly. Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication S for Effective Parenting helps parents identify the parenting style that works best for them. It teaches them how to communicate effectively within their chosen styles and according to their personal values. While supporting parents in their desire to understand and act within their own value systems, the book is a meaningful adjunct to the current interest in character education and moral responsibility. Being the Parent YOU Want to Be presents 12 Communication S for Effective Parenting in! an accessible, straight-forward manner, with plenty of examples, sample conversations, opportunities to role-play before using them with children, and practice opportunities. Parents and caregivers can immediately use such s as: Tell Me What's On Your Mind: A skill that reveals what a child is really thinking. Catch Them Doing It Right: A skill that finds and encourages qualities in which a child can take pride. This Is The Deal: A skill that sets up a contract between parent and child. Walk In Their Shoes: A skill that empathizes with a child's feelings. Solve The Problem: A skill that empowers a child to work with an adult to solve problems and make decisions. Who would benefit from this book? Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, foster parents, counselors, teachers, tutors, family court mediators, child-care providers, camp counselors, mentors, participants in Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America, coaches - anyone who works with or lives with children. This book is set up with fill-in-the blank pages, samples, examples, practice, and role-plays which make it a perfect text or workbook for workshops or cles: parenting workshops, parent-teacher conferences, family life and life-skill cles, and cles for teen parents.

About this title

From the Author

At last a book that recognizes the good job parents do!
Like you, I'm a parent. I've raised two great kids and am now enjoying our first grandchild, Austin. I'm also a teacher and have been for more than 35 years. I first learned these skills in a course for teachers. Project T.E.A.C.H. they called it. I was so impressed with how well the skills worked with the children I taught, that I became an instructor to show other teachers how they, too, could be more effective in their classrooms. Over and over again, the teachers I trained kept telling me, "They should teach these skills to parents." That's how this book began. Now parents, too, rank the 12 skills as "the best" or "among the best" skills for finding out what is on their children's minds, for overcoming children's resistances to parental guidance, and for helping children to solve problems and make decisions. In short, these 12 skills work -- for teachers and parents! They will also help you help your child become a responsibly independent adult -- and you won't have to compomise your values! They will help you Be the Parent YOU Want to Be! Try them. You'll like them!

Edition details

• Publisher: ebrandedbooks.com,US
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1892334070
• ISBN 13: 9781892334077
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 345