How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
The Faber-Mazlish method for adolescents: acknowledging feelings, engaging cooperation, alternatives to punishment, and handling sex and drugs conversations. Cartoons and scripts as always.
Read it if…
you used How to Talk with young children and now have teens.
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Skip it if…
you want theory; this is scripts.
Try instead: How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm →
Three things you will actually use
- Acknowledge before advising.
- Describe the problem; do not blame.
- Problem-solve together.
Do this first
Replace one lecture this week with acknowledging a feeling.
Our verdict
The method, for teens.
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