Paul Axtell's conversational, accessible book shows you how your words create your reality, your relationships, and your future. By paying attention to your conversations, you can change your relationships with your kids—or with anyone in your life. He provides sensible, easy-to-implement ideas for creating remarkable relationships through the power of conversation.
In the chapter "What You Say Matters," Axtell writes: "In my years of
training people in communication skills and effective conversation,
these ideas have remained consistent:
* Your words and conversations create your reality, your future, and your relationships.
* What you talk about - or don't talk about - defines your relationship."
The book empowers parents to be more conscious of what they say and how they speak to their kids and provides simple, straightforward, commonsense ideas for making deeper, more meaningful connections that will last forever. Axtell concludes, "Your words have the power to hurt as well as to nurture. The primary conversations that surround your children are your conversations. And those are the conversations you have the power to change."
This book gives you clues to improving relationships between parents and children, grandparents and grandkids, siblings, partners, employers and employees, counselors and patients. It's all about noticing what you are saying, and when you notice, you have a chance to make different choices. You start to understand the impact of your words, not only in the moment, but in how your kids see themselves in the world.
As Elle Allison, author of "What Wise People Do," said, "Ten Powerful Things not only creates great relationships, it will create great kids."
