How to Talk so Kids Can Learn: At Home and in School

From Publishers Weekly
A communications primer for parents on encouraging their child's learning ability. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
Following up their best-selling Siblings Without Rivalry (LJ 4/1/87), the authors explain how parents can help make their children more receptive to learning.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Review
Dr. Lawrence Balter Author of Who's in Control? Dr. Balter's Guide to Discipline Without Combat Another wonderfully practical book from Faber and Mazlish -- for both parents and teachers. With wisdom and humor the authors provide excellent strategies for bringing out the best in schoolchildren.


Book Description
The leading experts on parent-child communication show parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school. Using the unique communication 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.


From the Publisher, Simon & Schuster
From America's leading experts on parent-child communication, authors of How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk and Siblings Without Rivalry, comes abreakthrough guide telling parents and techers how to handle one of the burning issues of our day: how to motivate kids to succeed in school at a time when schools are rife with violence and many students are openly rebellious. Teaming up with two award-winning teachers who well know the problems of our faltering school system, Faber and Mazlish adapt their unique, time-tested communication strategies to the specific concerns of the classroom. Once aagin utilizing the dramatically effective "dialogue" technique (what to say and how and when to say it) that has made their work famous worldwide, they illustrate how to use this method to help kids handle the schoolwork and behavioral and peer problems that interfere with the learning process.


About the Author
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish are internationally acclaimed, award-winning experts on parent-child communication. Their books, printed in sixteen languages, have sold more than three million copies and their group workshop programs are being used throughout the world.


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Following up their best-selling Siblings Without Rivalry (LJ 4/1/87), the authors explain how parents can help make their children more receptive to learning.


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