Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting [Paperback]

Gary Screaton Page (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1999

Positive, effective communication with your children. What parent or caregiver wouldn't want that? Unfortunately, positive communication skills aren't something everyone is born with! Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting, teaches everyone who works with and cares for children 12 time-tested skills that transform adult-child relationships.

Parenting styles vary greatly. Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting helps parents identify the parenting style that works best for them. It teaches them how to communicate effectively within their chosen styles and according to their personal values. While supporting parents in their desire to understand and act within their own value systems, the book is a meaningful adjunct to the current interest in character education and moral responsibility.

Being the Parent YOU Want to Be presents 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting in! an accessible, straight-forward manner, with plenty of examples, sample conversations, opportunities to role-play before using them with children, and practice opportunities. Parents and caregivers can immediately use such skills as:

Tell Me What's On Your Mind: A skill that reveals what a child is really thinking. Catch Them Doing It Right: A skill that finds and encourages qualities in which a child can take pride. This Is The Deal: A skill that sets up a contract between parent and child. Walk In Their Shoes: A skill that empathizes with a child's feelings. Solve The Problem: A skill that empowers a child to work with an adult to solve problems and make decisions.

Who would benefit from this book? Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, foster parents, counselors, teachers, tutors, family court mediators, child-care providers, camp counselors, mentors, participants in Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America, coaches - anyone who works with or lives with children.

This book is set up with fill-in-the blank pages, samples, examples, practice, and role-plays which make it a perfect text or workbook for workshops or classes: parenting workshops, parent-teacher conferences, family life and life-skill classes, and classes for teen parents.

Editorial Reviews

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Gary Page's experience as a minister, teacher, and effective parent shine through the skills he teaches in this book and the stories he tells to illustrate them. He allows us to be the parents we want to be and to learn to effectively communicate with our children. -- Joseph Hasenstab, President, Performance Learning Systems

About the Author

Gary S. Page is the parent of two grown children, an award-winning teacher, presenter of parenting workshops, high school English teacher and guidance counselor, speaker, and minister. He lives in Welland, Ontario with his wife of 34 years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 345 pages
• Publisher: Performance Learning Systems (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892334070
• ISBN-13: 978-1892334077
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #440,617 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lifesaver for drowning parents, March 20, 2001

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This review is from: Being the Parent YOU Want to Be: 12 Communication Skills for Effective Parenting (Paperback)

I looked through dozens of books on parenting for help with my teenage son. I found, and used, lots of advice on logic and consequences, but each day he became more withdrawn and remote. This book could not have arrived at a better time. I read the first couple of chapters and applied the skills I learned. Within two days, he began to respond and his mood brightened. Within two weeks, we were talking the way we did before he became a teenager. The communication skills in this book not only make you a better parent, they make you a better person--one with the tools to respond to and address the stressful situations in life with confidence and composure.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Being the Parent You Want to Be, June 17, 2000

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Joan (St. Catharines, Ontario) - See all my reviews

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Easy to read, concise material on turning "wanting to be a good parent" to "being a good parent". Positive support and encouragement to try different techniques to communicate in a directive and positive manner with opportunities to practice your new skills. Good story example at the end of how one family practically applied the skills learned. Lots of good phrases to use. I've updated my skills and intend to use some of the strategies with my teens!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Parenting Book With A Difference, January 27, 2001

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As reviewed by Marjan Glavac for the Busy Educator's Newsletter.

Here's a parenting book with a difference. Right from the beginning, Page outlines three parenting styles as "My Way", "Your Way", and "Our Way" parents and their pros and cons. Through examples and exercises, the reader soon learns not only what their parenting style is perceived to be, but what it actually is. What is unique about this book over many other parenting guides on the market today, is that Page doesn't make a judgement about a person's parenting style. Instead, the book is geared to all three parenting styles.

Page presents his 12 communication skills in very clear language, and well organized in the following 3 categories: Skills for discovering what's on your child's mind; skills for overcoming your child's objections and skills for solving and making decisions with your child.

Through exercises, and a special section on role playing, Page reinforces his 12 communication skills for effective parenting. If you follow each of his communication skills and work through the examples and exercises, you will communicate more effectively with your children and be the parent (and teacher) you want to be.