12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting
Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting
Author: Gary Screaton Page, M.Ed.
Binding Type: Paper
Size: 6 x 9
Number of Pages: 348
Year Published: 1998
Availability: Usually in Stock or 4-5 days
Price: 19.95
Positive communication is the key to friendly, trusting, and caring relationships between parents and children. It is also a skill most of us were not born with. This book offers you 12 easy-to-learn, time-tested communication skills. These practical and useful skills improve relations with your children and bring harmony to your home.
Being the Parent YOU Want to Be lets you select the parenting style that works best for you: authoritative, permissive, or anything in between. With the skills in this book, you become a more effective parent using your own parenting styles and values.
The 12 Communication Skills of Effective Parenting are presented in an accessible, straight-forward manner, with plenty of examples, sample conversations, and practice. You can put to immediate use such skills as:
- Tell Me What's On Your Mind: A skill to understand more about what your child is thinking
- Catch Them Doing It Right: A skill that finds and encourages qualities in which your children take pride
- Solve the Problem: A skill that empowers your children to work with you to solve problems and make decisions
Using these skills you encourage your children to speak openly, make good decisions, improve self-esteem, increase responsibility, and develop a deeper understanding of the consequences of their behavior.
Those who would benefit from this book are:
- parents and grandparents
- aunts, uncles, and cousins
- foster parents
- counselors
- tutors
- family court mediators
- child-care providers
- camp counselors
- mentors
- Big Brothers and Big Sisters
- coaches
- anyone who works with or lives with children!
Let your school know about this book! Schools might use this book for:
- parenting workshops
- parent-teacher conferences
- family life and life-skills classes
- classes for teen parents
- PTA-sponsored events
- gifts to parents
- prizes
Outside of school this book would be important for parenting workshops provided by church and civic groups and for use by family therapists.
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Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting
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What People Are Saying...
"As a mother of four, I have come to realize how challenging parenting can be. The ideas presented by Gary Page in this book promote a healthy foundation for raising children today. It is concise, realistic, easy to follow, and the skills can be customized to suit your individual parenting style. Having used these skills myself, I can attest to their effectiveness and long-term benefits."
— Carol Weir, Parent/Educational Consultant
"This book is a wonderful guide for parents who want to speak to their children with the true authority of compassion, intelligence, and understanding. It tells us specifically what to say, how to say it, when to say it, and why to say it. Deceptively simple, this book is full of good ideas that could change the world."
— Joanna Robinson, Parent/Copy Editor
"I learned the skills in this book when I was a teacher in a course by Performance Learning Systems called Project TEACH. At the time, I thought that these skills would be really important for parents. I used them with my students at school and my kids at home. They saved my career as a teacher and helped create more harmony in my home. Now I am in another profession and use them on the job. This book is a must read for parents and others who work with children — and the skills can be used with anyone you meet."
— Barbara Eymann, Parent/ Editor