How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen

Joanna Faber and Julie King

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Calmer words for family life amid mood swings

Parenting young children—or supporting grandchildren—can coincide with reduced patience, competing care responsibilities, and a wish to break inherited family patterns. Faber and King offer practical language for acknowledging feelings, encouraging cooperation, setting limits, solving problems, and replacing punishment with connection. Mood swings may affect adults as well as children, but feelings do not remove responsibility for behavior. Viewed from midlife, the book’s scripts provide a pause between trigger and response. The aim is not permanently calm parenting; it is a home where frustration can be named, boundaries remain clear, and repair follows when everyone loses composure.

About Joanna Faber and Julie King

Joanna Faber grew up inside the communication approach developed by her mother, Adele Faber; Julie King brought years of parent workshops and family practice. Their collaboration translated an inherited philosophy into scripts tested against ordinary childhood chaos.

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