How to Talk So Kids Can Learn: At Home and In School

Written by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Narrated by Lisa Nyberg and Rosalyn Anstine Templeton

The leading experts on parent-child communication show parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school.

Using the unique communication strategies, down-to-earth dialogues, and delightful cartoons that are the hallmark of their multimillion-copy bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish show parents and teachers how to help children handle the everyday problems that interfere with learning.

This breakthrough book demonstrates how parents and teachers can join forces to inspire kids to be self-directed, self-disciplined, and responsive to the wonders of learning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Sep 1, 1995
• ISBN: 9780743548540

Adele Faber

Adele Faber (1928–2024) was a #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author whose books, with coauthor Elaine Mazlish, have sold more than five million copies and have been translated into over thirty languages. The authors’ group workshop programs and videos have been used by thousands of parent and teacher groups around the world.

Reviews for How to Talk So Kids Can Learn

[imperfectcj · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book was shelved with the homeschooling books at the library, and although it's not specifically geared towards homeschoolers, it has a lot of great suggestions that I think will be useful to the homeschooler crowd (as well as teachers and parents of children going to school-school).

I love Alfie Kohn's ideas about avoiding punishments and rewards, but his books (at least the ones I've read) are pretty heavy on theory and pretty light on practical application. Faber and Mazlish offer heaps of real-world examples that I've been able to try out immediately with my own kiddos. I would love to have a conflict resolution workshop at my kids' homeschool co-op based on the ideas in this book (but in case any of my fellow co-op parents are reading this, I want to attach an emphatic "Not it" to this suggestion).

The only thing this book lacks is a chapter on what to do when your nine-year-old has read the book ahead of you and is now correcting your technique when you try to implement the suggestions. (This shared reading also led to an interesting conversation with my daughter that began, "Mom, in one chapter they imply that saying 'your mother' is an insult, and I can't figure out why that would be an insult.")

[Pablo Machado · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Easy and valuable tips, applicable not only to communication with kids, but to communication with virtually all types of public.

[John · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Quick listen and very good voice acting! Gives a great overview of the book it is based off of. For an under 2 hour read I would recommend it.

[karenmerguerian · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was actually a fun book to read with my 10-year-old daughter. It's such a positive book, it really hones in on what kind of communication is judgmental and off-putting and what kind is inspiring and uplifting. It is full of examples and question-and-answer sections, some of it is told in cartoon strips. Although it's written for teachers, it is useful to anyone who communicates with kids or, really, anyone in a leadership position.

[Valeriaa Aguilar · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It reminds you the impact you have on kids !

[Adam Diaz · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great adaptation and example if how to apply the principles across other applications.

[Mario P. · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I really I love it so much, easy to understand. Great help.

[Rebecca Baxter · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was very inspiring! Thank you for the great examples.

[Fatemah · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It makes me look different at student behaviours. I applied some of the ideas and it seems to work so far

[Jane · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The audio did not always work which I'm very used to on SCRIBD but the content very good

[labbit440 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great stuff. Practical explication of the theories of Alfie Kohn. Like Kohn's work, it questions *the very basis of most theories of discipline*: that the exercise of power over children by adults is universally or intrinsically logical and desirable.