How to Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
The authors of the classic parenting communication book adapt it for adolescence: acknowledging feelings, engaging cooperation, alternatives to punishment, problem-solving together, and the topics of sex and drugs. The cartoon scripts show the wrong and right way, and the approach is respectful and effective.
Read it if…
your conversations with your teen have become arguments or silence.
Skip it if…
your children are young; the original covers them.
Three things you will actually use
- Acknowledge feelings before anything else.
- Describe the problem; do not accuse.
- Solve problems together; teens follow plans they helped make.
Do this first
Replace one lecture this week with a single sentence of acknowledgment and a question.
Our verdict
Practical and respectful.
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