The goal of the How To
Talk So Kids Will Listen Group workshop
is to help you and the members of your group communicate more
effectively with children.
In each session of the workshop
you'll be introduced to proven skills that will help you to cope
with your child's negative feelings...engage your child's willing
cooperation...discipline without hurting or alienating....help
your child develop a positive and realistic self- image...foster
a family atmosphere of love and respect.
What
Is in the Group Workshop?
The group workshop consists of a Workshop Kit/Chairperson's Guide
to be used by the group leader and materials to be used by
individual participants.
Workshop Kit/Chairperson's Guide (order one) It
includes:
- Directions for the leader
- Exercises for the participants (incorporating the entire participant's workbook)
- Teen Supplement
- Sample Certificates of Completion (purchase of additional copies are optional)
- Evaluation form
- 25 promotional brochures
- Sample press release
- Wall poster
- Video only: One DVD
- Audio only: Two CD's; pocket cards, puzzle, supplies
Participants (order
one each of the items below for each participant)
- Participant's Workbook (specify Audio or Video version)
- Reading materials (the following two paper-bound books):
- How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
- (Extends and deepens the workshop experience with explanations, questions and answers, and stories illustrating each skill.)
- Liberated Parents/Liberated Children
- (Background
information essential to the full
understanding of skills taught in the
workshop.)
What Will Be Covered in Each Session?
1. Helping Children Deal with Their Feelings
An exploration of what happens to
children when their feelings are denied. Specific skills
that help children to recognize and cope with their
negative feelings-disappointment, envy, frustration,
resentment, anger, etc. Ways to accept children's
feelings, limit unacceptable behavior, and still maintain
goodwill.
2. Engaging Cooperation
- How children react to
commonly used methods to get them to cooperate: threats,
warnings, orders, name-calling, sarcasm, lecturing, etc.
Five ways to invite cooperation that will leave parents
and children feeling good about themselves and each
other.
3. Alternatives to Punishment
- How do children normally
react to punishment? Is it necessary to rely on
punishment as a means of discipline? Some alternatives to
punishment that enable parents to express their strong
disapproval as well as encourage children to assume
responsibility for their behavior.
4. Encouraging Autonomy
- Ways to help children become
separate, responsible people who can one day function on
their own. Specific skills that help children to become
more self-reliant.
5. Praise
- An exploration of the kinds
of praise that build a positive and realistic self-image-and
the kinds that do not. A variety of ways to help our
children become aware of their strengths so that they can
put them into action.
6. Freeing Children from Playing Roles
- A look at how children are
sometimes cast into roles (bully, whiner, dawdler,
mischief-maker, etc.) and how we can free them from
playing out these roles. Six skills that help children
see themselves in a different and more positive light.
7. Final Review (Audio Workshop only)
- Back to life's workshop; a
chance to consolidate what's been learned by applying all
the skills of the previous sessions to current problems
with children.
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!
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
- $12.50 per copy
- $11.45 per copy when you purchase 11 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
$11.00 per copy - $10.00 per copy when you
order 11 or more
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