Part I The Essential Toolbox -- Tools for Handling Emotions ... What's All the Fuss about Feelings? -- Tools for Engaging Cooperation ... Feelings Schmeelings, She Has to Brush Her Teeth -- Tools for Resolving Conflict ... Avoiding Combat on the Home Front -- Tools for Praise and Appreciation ... Not All Odes Are Equal -- Tools for Kids Who Are Differently Wired ... Will This Work with My Kid? -- The Basics ... You Can't Talk Your Way Out of These -- Part II The Tools In Action -- Food Fights -- The Battle at the Kitchen Table -- Morning Madness -- Escaping the Intense Gravitational Pull of Your Home -- Sibling Rivalry -- Give the Baby Back! -- Shopping with Children -- Mayhem at the Market -- Lies -- Kids and the Creative Interpretation of Reality -- Parents Have Feelings, Too -- Tattling -- Snitches and Whistle-Blowers -- Cleanup -- The Dirtiest Word -- Doctor's Orders -- Medicine, Shots, Blood Draws, and Other Horrors -- Shy Kids -- Fear of Friendly Folks -- Little Runaways -- Kids Who Take Off in the Parking Lot and Other Public Places -- Hitting, Pinching, Poking, Punching, Pushing -- I Barely Touched Him! -- Sleep -- The Holy Grail -- When Parents Get Angry! -- Troubleshooting -- When the Tools Don't Work.
Summary:
Discover tried and tested communication strategies to survive - and thrive - with kids ages 2-7 The all-new content in this book deals with struggles familiar to every parent, relative, teacher and childminder. How do you respond to the toddler who won't brush his teeth? The preschooler who pinches the baby? The child who throws everything she can reach? It's hard to be a little kid. It's hard to be an adult responsible for that little kid. And it's really hard to think about effective communication when the toast is burning, the baby is crying and you're exhausted. This book will help readers do just that. Organized according to everyday challenges and conflicts, and including real-life examples and the series' trademark cartoons, this book is a survival manual of communication tools, including a chapter that addresses the special needs of children with sensory processing or autism spectrum disorders.
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