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A breakthrough guide for building better relationships between parents and teenagers— the new book from Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.

Hard Cover

HOW TO TALK SO TEENS WILL LISTEN

& LISTEN SO TEENS WILL TALK

Spanish version now available!

What happens when a child crosses into the daunting territory of adolescence? For too many parents, the answer is deeply troubling: the son or daughter they thought they knew turns into a sullen stranger who criticizes their taste, challenges their rules, and rejects their values. Some parents react by laying down the law and punishing any transgression, however minor. Others respond by throwing up their hands and hoping for the best. Sadly, either approach–“Do as I say” or “Do what you want”–cuts off the possibility of communication with the most significant grown-ups in a young person’s life.

Adele and Elaine knew it was time for a fresh look at how to improve relationships between adults and teens when they began to hear desperate cries for HELP! from parents of teenagers. The result is their new book, .HOW TO TALK SO TEENS WILL LISTEN & LISTEN SO TEENS WILL TALK.

Based upon the many workshops they ran for parents and teens, separately and together, Adele and Elaine present communication strategies to ease the tough transition from childhood to adulthood in a culture they describe as “meaner, ruder, cruder, more materialistic, more sexualized, more violent than ever before.” Whether the problem is curfews, cliques, peer pressure, grades, cyber-bullying, smoking pot, or having sex, parents will learn new ways of dealing with these difficult issues. And, as parents who have used these methods attest, teens are much more likely to open up, think critically, exercise good judgment and even seek advice from adults who know how to talk and listen.

Packed with true stories, typical scenarios, instructive comic strips, and reminder pages that highlight the ideas in each chapter, HOW TO TALK SO TEENS WILL LISTEN & LISTEN SO TEENS WILL TALK demonstrates the communication skills that will give parents the know-how they need to enjoy a mutually respectful relationship with their teenage son or daughter.

Parents will discover how rewarding it can be to:

Listen helpfully to their teenager’s concerns
Express their own anger or irritation honestly but not hurtfully
Use positive alternatives to punishment
Help their teens to believe in themselves
Solve problems by inviting teens to become part of the solution
Take advantage of small opportunities to talk with their teens about drugs and sex

Teenagers will discover:

What other kids their age have to say about their conflicts and frustrations
Specific skills for getting along better with their friends
Respectful ways to voice their annoyance with their parents’ behavior

Innovative, down-to-earth, and exceptionally user-friendly, HOW TO TALK SO TEENS WILL LISTEN & LISTEN SO TEENS WILL TALK can make a significant difference in the lives of families, through and beyond the turbulent teenage years..

By Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

September 2005

224 pages, with black and white illustrations throughout

$23.95 Hard Cover

$12.95 Spanish version, Paperbound book

More Books on Adult/Child Communication by Faber & Mazlish


How To Talk So Kids Will Listen
& Listen So Kids Will Talk: by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish; You can stop fighting with your children!

Spanish version now available!

The successful parenting workshops pioneered by leading experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, based on the work of the late child psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott, have won the international praise of mothers and fathers and professional educators-for the simple reason that they get results! Faber and Mazlish offer skills based on new psychological insights, their own experience as parents, and what they've learned from parents throughout the world!

This easy-to-read book "Will bring about more cooperation from children than all the yelling and pleading in the world" according to the Christian Science Monitor. The authors' method is supportive, friendly, and best of all, effective. It offers innovative ways to solve such common problems as:

How to listen to-and understand-your child's concerns
How to have cooperation in your family-without nagging
How you and your child can deal with feelings
How to find alternatives to punishment
How to help your child attain a positive self-image.

Paperbound; 5¼" X 8"; 242 pages- with key points illustrated by cartoons

$12.95 per copy
$11.45 per copy when you purchase 10 or more

Spanish version: Paperbound
$12.95 per copy

$11.45 per copy when you purchase 10 or more


Liberated Parents/Liberated Children:
Your Guide to a Happier Family: by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

The nationally acclaimed book that shows that a happier home is possible!

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish tell how the principles of the famed child psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott have inspired their own highly successful child-care methods, used in parent workshops from coast to coast. Sharing their own and others' parenting experiences, Faber and Mazlish provide moving and convincing testimony to this approach, one which has proved to bring out the best in both children and parents. Find out how the mood in your home can change when you respond

To feelings -"A scratch can hurt."

Instead of, "Stop crying. It's only a scratch"

To mishaps- "The milk spilled. We need a sponge."

Instead of, " Now look what you did!"

To misbehavior-"Walls are not for writing on. Paper is for writing on."

Instead of, "Bad boy! No more crayons for you!

They also speak to the countless ways your use of language can build self-esteem, inspire confidence, and encourage responsibility. Paperbound; 5¼" X 8"; 255 pages-- with key points illustrated by cartoons $12.95 per copy
$11.45 per copy when you order 10 or more

1998 Edition!!!

Siblings Without Rivalry
How to Help Your Children Live Together
So You Can Live Too

by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Help is here!

From the widely acclaimed authors of How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk comes the sanity-saving help parents everywhere have been looking for. Written with humor, compassion and understanding, and illustrated with delightful cartoons, Siblings Without Rivalry challenges the idea that constant, unpleasant conflict is natural and unavoidable. In action-oriented, easy-to-understand anecdotes and stories it shows the many ways you can teach your children how to get along.

"An excellent book...offers dozens of practical guidelines and real-life examples for fostering wholesome cooperative sibling relations."

Jane E. Brody, The New York Times

"A variety of astonishingly simple and astonishingly effective strategies and skills that reduce or eliminate sibling rivalry. ...I cannot recommend it highly enough!"

Nathaniel Branden, psychiatrist, teacher and bestselling author

"A very human book about one of the toughest problems parents have to handle."

Dr. Benjamin M. Spock

Paperbound; 5¼" X 8"; 267 pages-- with key points illustrated by cartoons
$12.95 per copy

$11.45 per copy when you order 10 or more

Between Brothers & Sisters

A Celebration of Life's Most Enduring Relationship

by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

This most delightful collection of photographs, accompanied by an original poem by the authors, will make you fall in love, perhaps a second time, with the power and meaning of the sibling relationship.

The authors were asked to write an introduction to a collection of photographs of siblings. As they explain in the introduction to this book:

" We were overwhelmed by the beauty and significance of the raw material in our hands. Yes, we would do an introduction, but we could never stop there. It would have to be our book, the pictures we chose, the statement about 'siblingship' we wanted to make. Yes, we would use some of these photographs, but for the larger vision that was already beginning to form in our minds, we would need many more pictures to chose from....

"As we selected and assembled, and reassembled the pictures, we saw that we could not do justice to the tale that was unfolding before us with ordinary prose. We tried. The words wouldn't come. Each photograph was a poem and cried out for poetic commentary....Once we allowed ourselves the freedom and the rhythms of poetry, the writing flowed."

"By the time we completed our book, we had lost all objectivity. We were hopelessly in love with each and every set of siblings pictured. What had started out as an accommodation, a favor to a friend, ended as a rich emotional education about the meaning of the sibling relationship-its power and enduring essence."

"We hope, dear reader, as you leaf through this book that somewhere, on some page, you'll find yourself and your brother or sister, and rediscover the meaning you have for each other."

Paperbound; 7¼" X 9¼"; 192 pages

Out of Print

Leading experts on
parent-child communications
show parents and teachers how to
motivate kids to learn and
succeed in school

How to Talk So Kids Can Learn-At Home and in School

by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish, Lisa Nyberg, Ph.D. and Rosalyn
Anstine Templeton, PhD*

Using the unique communicating strategies, down-to-earth dialogues, and delightful cartoons that are the hallmark of their multimillion-copy bestseller How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish show parents and teachers how to help children handle the everyday problems that interfere with learning.

This breakthrough book demonstrates how parents and teachers can join forces to inspire kids to be self-directed, self-disciplined, and responsive to the wonders of learning.

Paperbound; 5¼" X 8"; 272 pages- with key points illustrated by cartoons

$12.95 per copy

* Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish worked closely with Lisa Nyberg and with Rosalyn Anstine Templeton to adapt their principles of communicating with kids to the learning experience.

Lisa Nyberg is winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence. She teaches third and fourth graders in Springfield. Oregon. Rosalyn Anstine Templeton is a teacher of teachers at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois.