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Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges

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By: Patty Wipfler, Tosha Schore
Narrated by: Patty Wipfler
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Listen introduces parents to five simple, practical skills even the most harried parent can use. These tools will help parents strengthen their connection with their child and help build their child's intelligence, cooperation, and ability to learn as they grow. The audiobook delivers detailed information, accompanied by more than 100 real-life stories from parents who've used this approach to address the root causes of their child's difficult behaviors.

Five surprising things parents will learn:

  • You don't have to reward or punish willful children to get them to cooperate
  • Aggressive kids are frightened kids, and there are simple tools to ease their fear so they don't need to lash out
  • Your willingness to just listen to crying or tantrums, often is enough to heal a child's fears and hurts
  • Safe play during which your kid becomes the boss, can reveal his hidden feelings - and heal them too
  • Parents who regularly listen to one another's struggles, without judging or advising, often clear so much toxic emotion that their children benefit greatly

©2016 Hand in Hand Parenting, Patty Wipfler and Tosha Schore (P)2017 Hand in Hand Parenting Parenting & Families Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships

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Lots of great advice and stories to relate to but the overarching theme of having a listening partner is where this seems to fall down for me. It may be US thinks but in the UK and as a Male in the Uk not sure how this is supposed to pan out.

Still worth a ...listen.

Lots of great advice but listening not easily applicable

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This book has been life changing for us as a family. I absolutely love the whole approach to parenting and our children are so much happier

Fantastic

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I love Patty and her narration. I found the listening to Patty's voice in itself was healing for me. It helped me to Release frozen fears from the past.

Every parent MUST read book!Healing voice of Patty

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Thank you so much for writing this book. I will be listening to it all again soon. So many amazing insights and I just love all the anecdotes.

Loved it

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Listening and crying as natural healing tools.

This book show practical and obvious reasons for people to listen. it also also shows how to help a kid to cry as a way of healing yet natural, effective and pretty fast. This way, it is assumed that the child becomes adult free of blocked energy.

We are very grateful for such a book in the hands of many.

Melinda Eugenie Bardin for Energy Positive Stockholm

Energy Positive Stockholm

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I found this book hugely helpful. the examples and stories are real so easy to relate to.

excellent

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Would you consider the audio edition of Listen to be better than the print version?

It's just different. I love to read books but I also love to hear audio's too and can get on with other stuff whist I'm listening which is so important for a busy parent :)

What was one of the most memorable moments of Listen?

I just love all the success stories about how family situations have been changed through this work. It's incredibly moving to hear of what a huge difference it is making to children and families everywhere around the world.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

I love hearing about playlistening and how laughter can transform a situation in minutes.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

So many to name.

Any additional comments?

If you want to build an amazing connection with your kids. If you want your kids to grow up happy and self expressed. if you want to get along with your kids then listen to this book. There is a wealth of wise and practical advice!

Tools to create an amazing connection with kids

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I was struggling with this book right from almost the beginning but thought to give it a chance. I have listened to many gentle parenting books, and although this book is about being a gentle parent, the whole method felt a bit passive aggressive. There aren't any sources of studies regarding the method that is used in each case and I am an evidence - based fan. Especially when it comes to eating, oversimplifying the reason that kids can be a picky eater and actually forcing them (gently, but still forcing them) to eat the "healthy" eggs and beans is already problematic. I pretty much stopped listening after that. Also, it heavily depends on specific tools and outcomes, like having a listening partner (for many parents that's impossible for various reasons) and the fact that the child will cry and let the frustration out after holding a limit, resulting in doing what the parent would like him to do afterwards. It really doesn't always work this way. I enjoyed much more the books by Sarah Ockwell-Smith and Faber. Regarding the narration, there are mistakes and sentences are repeated but the narrator is for the rest pleasant to listen to. Long story short :Not my cup of tea.

I stopped listening @chapt 12 about picky eating

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