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.