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A review by overbookedmama
How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 by Julie King, Joanna Faber
3.0
Like every other toddler/preschool mom, I struggle with how to actually get my kid to listen. I tend to be skeptical of parenting books that promise results. I feel like we’ve tried just about everything. I decided to listen to this audiobook from the library at work anyways.
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen is broken into two sections: The Essential Toolbox and The Tools in Action. After the author introduces the tools, there are plenty of real-life accounts that help demonstrate how to put the tools into action. I found some of the personal anecdotes a bit redundant and annoying to get through (I’m a busy mom… just give me the refrigerator cheat sheet) but they truly help drive the point home and show how you can use new techniques to communicate with your kids. The catchphrase that stuck with me the most from the book is using “the problem is” to explain something vs. the word “but”.
The main takeaway is to be sure to acknowledge and name your little kids’ feelings! It's not a perfect method, and won't always work, but the technique is worth a shot.
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen is broken into two sections: The Essential Toolbox and The Tools in Action. After the author introduces the tools, there are plenty of real-life accounts that help demonstrate how to put the tools into action. I found some of the personal anecdotes a bit redundant and annoying to get through (I’m a busy mom… just give me the refrigerator cheat sheet) but they truly help drive the point home and show how you can use new techniques to communicate with your kids. The catchphrase that stuck with me the most from the book is using “the problem is” to explain something vs. the word “but”.
The main takeaway is to be sure to acknowledge and name your little kids’ feelings! It's not a perfect method, and won't always work, but the technique is worth a shot.