How to Talk When Kids Won't Listen: Dealing with Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns and Other Challenges

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Do you struggle with having honest and open conversations with your child? Do you find yourself not knowing what to say when faced with a tricky topic? From homework hassles to temper tantrums, sibling rivalry to bedtime battles, every parent has felt the weight of escalating scenarios and ineffective punishment. How to Talk When Kids Won't Listen is filled with top tips, relatable stories, and forward thinking techniques designed to transform your relationship with your child. As the latest publication in the internationally bestselling How to Talk series, this user-friendly guide sees parenting experts Joanna Faber and Julie King reveal their strategies and show you how to put them into practice in real-life scenarios. Whether you are struggling with digital dilemmas, or life-changing events like divorce, it is no secret that the challenges of parenting change over time. Accessible, helpful, and to-the-point, How to Talk When Kids Won't Listen is the go-to book to help build a better relationship with your child.

Joanna Faber lectures and conducts workshops based on her mother's work and her own experiences as a parent and educator. She contributed heavily to her mother's award-winning book, How to Talk So Kids Can Learn, with her frontline experience as a bilingual special education teacher. She wrote a new supplement for the thirtieth anniversary edition of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, entitled The Next Generation. Joanna lives in Putnam Valley, New York, with her husband, three children, dogs, cats, and an assortment of chickens. Julie King has been teaching parenting and communication skills to parents, teachers and other professionals since 1995. She is a highly regarded workshop leader, public speaker, and parenting consultant. Her most popular workshop, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, is based on the bestselling books of Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. She has presented to numerous schools, nonprofits, and parent groups. Julie and her husband have three children and live in the San Francisco Bay Area.