Your Children Are Listening: Nine Messages They Need to Hear from You

by Jim Taylor PhD

Overview

In a world full of negativity, a psychologist reveals how to send your kids healthy, positive messages—both verbally and nonverbally.
 
As a parent, you constantly send your children messages with your words, attitudes, and actions, creating their earliest ideas about themselves, others, and the world around them. This guide describes the vital opportunity you have to shape your children—even when they may not appear to be listening—and shows how you can instill healthy beliefs that will strengthen them against peer pressure, manipulative media, and other negative influences. Your Children Are Listening offers:

• Nine essential messages all children need to hear—on love, competence, security, compassion, gratitude, nature, respect, responsibility, and emotion
• Why these messages are so important
• The different “conduits” through which children receive your messages
• “Message blockers” that can prevent them from getting through
• Fun catchphrases and activities you can use to send these messages every day

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615191352
Publisher:	The Experiment
Publication date:	05/15/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	1,044,505
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jim Taylor, PHD, has worked with young people, parents, and educators for more than 24 years. He has spoken at over 700 venues globally. His previous books include Positive Pushing: How to Raise a Successful and Happy Child (Hyperion, 2002). His dozens of past national and local TV appearances include NBC's Today and ABC's World News This Weekend, and he is regularly quoted by major print media. He lives with his family in Marin County, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part I Get the Message 1

1 The Why and the What of Messages 2

2 Are Your Messages Getting Through? 21

3 What Can Block Your Messages? 35

Part II I Like Myself 57

4 Message #1: Love Is Your Child's Wellspring ("Sooo Much") 59

5 Message #2: Competence Is Your Child's Strength ("I Did It") 80

6 Message #3: Security Is Your Child's Safe Harbor ("I'm Okay") 111

Part III I Like Others 135

7 Message #4: Compassion Is Your Child's Hands ("Sharing Is Caring") 137

8 Message #5: Gratitude Is Your Child's Heart ("Mo' Grat") 154

9 Message #6: Earth Is Your Child's Home ("We're a Green Family") 165

Part IV Others Like Me 177

10 Message #7: Respect Is Your Child's Measure ("The Look") 179

11 Message #8: Responsibility Is Your Child's Shoulders ("That's the Job") 201

12 Message #9: Emotion Is Your Child's Palette ("Feel Good, Feel Bad") 220

Afterword 239

References 241

Acknowledgments 251

Index 253

About the Author 263

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Jim Taylor’s strengths are his compassionate voice, his insights into parents’ and children’s psyches, and his ‘boots on the ground’ approach to helping parents send healthy messages to their children. In a world filled with harmful messages, Your Children are Listening will resonate with all parents.”
—Michele Borba, EdD, author of Parents Do Make a Difference and The Big Book of Parenting Solutions

“In a world where children are surrounded by negative messages, Dr. Jim Taylor gives parents the tools they need to effectively communicate healthy, positive messages that will infuse their childrens’ hearts, minds and souls.”
—Michelle LaRowe, author of A Mom’s Ultimate Book of Lists, Working Mom’s 411 and the Nanny to the Rescue! Parenting Series

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