How To Talk So Kids Will Talk Essay

Introduction
How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, is an incredible “how-to” read that supplies parents with the tools necessary for improving the quality of the relationship between parent and child. Not only does this book allow parents to understand what truly having empathy for their child entails, it also provides a framework for parents to build a solid foundation and ensure that their child feels comfortable verbally addressing their problems. Through parents’ active listening and as the book suggests, giving feelings a name, children are better able to cope with their emotions and find ways in which to handle them in respectable ways. In addition, it allows parents to gain knowledge about, and effectively carry out, methods in which to discourage and avoid disrespectful and defiant behavior through ways other than the typical punishment. Furthermore, instead of parents jumping in and offering quick and easy …show more content…
This book has the power to not only provide a solid foundation for families, but also gives parents all the tools necessary to ensure they are helping shape their child into a respectful, confident and content individual. Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is strongly relevant to this book being that each of his stages, particularly the early stages, are essentially, what allows parents to work through this “how to” book with their child. Erikson discusses many of the important factors within childhood that parents play such an important part in and this amazing book simply, allows parents the opportunity to be the parent they always fantasized of being. As parents, if we cannot give children the time, the patience and the opportunities that they deserve, how can we expect them to learn, grow, respect and love, the way that we hope they