Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting

Communicate Effectively With Your Children!

Positive communication is the key to friendly, trusting, and caring relationships between parents and children. These practical and useful skills improve relations with your children and bring harmony to your home.

Being the Parent YOU Want to Be lets you select the parenting style that works best for you: Authoritative, Permissive, or anything in between. With the skills in this book, you become a more effective parent using your own parenting styles and values.

The 12 Communication Skills of Effective Parenting are presented in an accessible, straightforward manner, with plenty of examples, sample conversations, and practice. You can put these skills to immediate use to encourage your children to speak openly, make good decisions, improve self-esteem, increase responsibility, and develop a deeper understanding of the consequences of their behavior.

You will learn such empowering communication skills:

• Tell Me What’s On Your Mind
A skill to understand more about what your child is thinking

• Catch Them Doing It Right
A skill that finds and encourages qualities in which your children take pride.

• Solve The Problem
A skill that empowers your children to work with you to solve problems and make decisions.

Using these skills, you encourage your children to speak openly, make good decisions, improve self-esteem, increase responsibility, and develop a deeper understanding of the consequences of their behavior.

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Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting

Communicate Effectively With Your Children!

Positive communication is the key to friendly, trusting, and caring relationships between parents and children. These practical and useful skills improve relations with your children and bring harmony to your home.

Being the Parent YOU Want to Be lets you select the parenting style that works best for you: Authoritative, Permissive, or anything in between. With the skills in this book, you become a more effective parent using your own parenting styles and values.

The 12 Communication Skills of Effective Parenting are presented in an accessible, straightforward manner, with plenty of examples, sample conversations, and practice. You can put these skills to immediate use to encourage your children to speak openly, make good decisions, improve self-esteem, increase responsibility, and develop a deeper understanding of the consequences of their behavior.

You will learn such empowering communication skills:

• Tell Me What’s On Your Mind
A skill to understand more about what your child is thinking

• Catch Them Doing It Right
A skill that finds and encourages qualities in which your children take pride.

• Solve The Problem
A skill that empowers your children to work with you to solve problems and make decisions.

Using these skills, you encourage your children to speak openly, make good decisions, improve self-esteem, increase responsibility, and develop a deeper understanding of the consequences of their behavior.

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Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting

Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting

by Gary Screaton Page
Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting

Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting

by Gary Screaton Page

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Communicate Effectively With Your Children!

Positive communication is the key to friendly, trusting, and caring relationships between parents and children. These practical and useful skills improve relations with your children and bring harmony to your home.

Being the Parent YOU Want to Be lets you select the parenting style that works best for you: Authoritative, Permissive, or anything in between. With the skills in this book, you become a more effective parent using your own parenting styles and values.

The 12 Communication Skills of Effective Parenting are presented in an accessible, straightforward manner, with plenty of examples, sample conversations, and practice. You can put these skills to immediate use to encourage your children to speak openly, make good decisions, improve self-esteem, increase responsibility, and develop a deeper understanding of the consequences of their behavior.

You will learn such empowering communication skills:

• Tell Me What’s On Your Mind
A skill to understand more about what your child is thinking

• Catch Them Doing It Right
A skill that finds and encourages qualities in which your children take pride.

• Solve The Problem
A skill that empowers your children to work with you to solve problems and make decisions.

Using these skills, you encourage your children to speak openly, make good decisions, improve self-esteem, increase responsibility, and develop a deeper understanding of the consequences of their behavior.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940152374902
Publisher: Gary Screaton Page
Publication date: 05/07/2015
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Gary Screaton Page, Ph.D. is a General Member of the Ontario Association of Consultants Counsellors Psychometricians and Psychotherapists (OACCPP). An award-winning educator, Gary has an M.Ed. in Education and a Ph.D. in counseling. He is a Registered Clinical Therapist and award-winning teacher having taught students at all levels of education: from Primary through College and University.

Gary Screaton Page is the author of several books, numerous articles, and has created an online self-counseling course to help you relate more effectively to others. Gary has been interviewed on numerous radio shows as well as on "Canada A.M.," "Hour Long," and "Take Thirty" television shows. He was Education Consultant for a children’s television series, Host/Writer for CHEX-TV’s "What Did You Do In School Today," as well as Contributing Editor of "The Educational Courier."

Gary holds certificates in Clinical Pastoral Counseling and Cybercounseling among others. He is a member of the Board of Jericho House Youth Leadership, Justice, and Spirituality Centre (www.jerichohouse.org) located in Wainfleet, ON and is a police service Chaplain. He has worked with thousands of parents and children throughout his professional career.

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