11 useful books to help you better understand your child

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

These books will help parents find an approach to their child and teach how to listen to him correctly, praise, scold and encourage him, as well as adequately respond to children's whims and disobedience.

1. Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlisch, "How to Speak for Children to Listen, and How to Listen for Children to Speak"

The book helps parents understand how to talk with children in a language they understand, how to communicate in such a way as to listen and hear each other.

Using the example of different life situations, special tasks and even comics, the authors can easily explain how to teach children to cope with emotions and express them safely, how to make a child independent and responsible, how to praise and scold him so that he does not get offended and does not become arrogant, as well as many others. useful things.

2. Julia Gippenreiter, “Communicate with a child. How?"

This book will contain lessons, exercises and even homework, but they will have to be done not by children, but by adults. With the help of the book, you can learn the practical foundations of education. For example, learn how to correctly formulate questions and requests, practice active listening, and even become a real expert in effective conflict resolution.

3. Darlene Sweetland, “Teach Your Child to Think. How to raise an intelligent, confident and independent person"

Darlene Sweetland, Doctor of Psychology and a clinical psychologist with many years of experience, shares her experience on how to properly build the process of raising modern children. The author will tell you about the way of thinking, behavior and desires of the young generation, give advice on how to instill in a child the desire to bring things to an end, and teach you how to bypass the most common pitfalls of upbringing.

4. Niina Yunttila, Zero Friends

A guidebook for parents who want to find an approach to single children who do not want to make friends or for some reason cannot do it. Psychologist Niina Yunttila talks about the most common patterns of loneliness and gives advice on how to help your child cope with it.

5. Nigel Latta, "Before Your Kid Drives You Crazy"

A funny book for parents balancing on the brink of despair that their child has begun a difficult period of puberty. It explains in an accessible and humorous way how to establish contact with a growing child, and gives advice, thanks to which it will be possible to peacefully get along with a little outrageous under one roof.

6. Ekaterina Murashova, "Your incomprehensible child"

Family psychologist Ekaterina Murashova gives universal recommendations on the most common problems of upbringing. How to understand what is going on in a child's head, how to teach him to cope with fears and nightmares, how to overcome reluctance to learn, how to prevent a child from withdrawing into himself - these and other important behavioral features are detailed in the book.

7. Mary Sheedy Kurchinka, “A child with character. How to love him, educate him and not go crazy"

The book will be especially interesting and useful for parents who have children with a difficult character. Unable to cope with him on their own, they begin to behave unpredictably: they boast, sneak, fight, ask or lie recklessly. How to stop such behavior and learn to understand what is going on in a child's head in such situations is exactly what the book is about.

8. Daniele Novara, “Don't Shout at Children! How to resolve conflicts with children and make them listen to you"

Step-by-step instructions for competent and effective resolution of conflicts with children. The author will tell you why it is better to solve problems without yelling and not beating yourself, and will also give practical advice on how to control yourself, not to shake anyone's nerves and quarrel with minimal losses.

9. John Gottman, “The Emotional Intelligence of the Child. A Practical Guide for Parents"

This book is a guide to developing a child's emotional intelligence. It makes it possible to understand his inner world and find out what the emotions that he experiences mean. The book will tell parents how to instill empathy in their children, teach them how to discuss and regulate emerging emotions, and also give instructions on how to help their child cope with negativity.

10. Amber and Andy Ankowski, “What's in His Head? Simple experiments to help parents understand their child"

The book contains 33 psychological experiments that will help you understand how a child thinks. After reading them, it will become clear how to instill in the child a sense of responsibility, how to reduce anxiety and even how to teach him to eat less sweets.

11. Lyudmila Petranovskaya, "If it's difficult with a child"

A collection of irreplaceable tips for raising children with behavioral features. It contains recommendations on how to speak the same language with these children, how to build relationships, how to interpret behavior and how to avoid unnecessary scandals and other conflict situations.