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    Un-Mute Your Child: How to talk to your kids, so they can hear you
    Un-Mute Your Child: How to talk to your kids, so they can hear you
    Un-Mute Your Child: How to talk to your kids, so they can hear you
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    Un-Mute Your Child: How to talk to your kids, so they can hear you

    By Joey Avniel

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    About this ebook

    In celebration of my coming book: “Drama With Mama: how to better your relationship with your mother,” I gathered 13 different perspectives from experts in the area of parent-child relationships. Each expert covers a different aspect of how you can improve communication with your children.
    The book is divided into 3 categories: Kids in general, Teenagers, and special cases. I’m sure you can benefit from all 3 sections.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoey Avniel
    Release dateApr 28, 2012
    ISBN9781476138527
    Un-Mute Your Child: How to talk to your kids, so they can hear you
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    Joey Avniel

    Joey Avniel is passionate about helping people to find their own inner peace. As a former officer in the army he mastered the way of the warrior, but was missing the essential components of peace and happiness. After his service he started to search his own path to inner peace. He received self-improvement training, and then trained others through several different self-improvement programs. Eventually he developed what he calls “The Artist Path,” a path that guides anyone, even a warrior to find his own inner peace. Joey’s training includes energetic healing, self empowerment teaching, and first aid for suicidal people. Today he’s an author and a speaker on the subject of inner peace. He is the co-founder of the publishing house – Barefoot Mind Inspiration and the co-creator of the website – www.mysuicidalthoughts.com – which helps people deal with and overcome suicidal thoughts.

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      Book preview

      Un-Mute Your Child - Joey Avniel

      Un-Mute Your Child

      How to talk to your kids, so they can hear you

      13 parenting tips from experts edited by

      Joey Avniel

      ~~**~~

      Copyright Joey Avniel 2012

      Published by Barefoot Mind Publishing at Smashwords

      http://www.barefootmind.com/

      ~~**~~

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold to other people. All the rights of the different chapters in this book, belongs to the authors who wrote them. You may not copy or use any of the chapters without a written permission from its author. Thanks you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to my amazing parents, who always did the best they could raising me, giving me love, support and inspiration. I wish we always had the same kind of communication we have now.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I want to thank all the great writers who contributed a chapter to this book. I bless you for the sacred work you do to help improve communication between parents and kids.

      INTRODUCTION

      In celebration of my coming book: Drama With Mama: how to better your relationship with your mother, I gathered 13 different perspectives from experts in the area of parent-child relationships. Each expert covers a different aspect of how you can improve communication with your children.

      The book is divided into 3 categories: Kids in general, Teenagers, and special cases. You can benefit from all 3 sections.

      CONTENTS

      Part I - Reaching your Kid

      Chapter 1: Living Peacefully with Toddlers, by Dr. Deb Moberly

      Chapter 2: Parent Deafness, by Bill Corbett

      Chapter 3: Seeing the Good in Kids, by Sandra Blackard

      Chapter 4: I’ve created a little M… Mirror, by Joey Avniel

      Chapter 5: Proximity, by Julia Simens

      Chapter 6: How to Get Control of Your Child’s Electronic Gaming, by Dr Tom Potisk

      Part II - Reaching your Teen

      Chapter 7: Enhancing Relationships With Teens Through Assertive Parenting, by Jennie Withers

      Chapter 8: Why Parent-Child Conflicts Explode During The Teen Years, and What To Do About It, by Roger E. Frame, Ph.D.

      Chapter 9: Communication is key to developing and maintaining a positive relationship with your children, by Ressurrection Graves

      Part III - Special Cases with Kids

      Chapter 10: Having an autistic child, by Sandy McKeown

      Chapter 11: Positive Parenting Before & After Divorce, Your 8-Step Formula for Success! by Rosalind Sedacca, CCT

      Chapter 12: Parenting ADHD, by Karen Hebert

      Chapter 13: Pediatric Hypnotherapy, by Dr. Deirdre Clark-Collett

      Part I - Reaching your Kid

      Chapter 1: Living Peacefully with Toddlers, by Dr. Deb Moberly

      Some of the more challenging times with toddlers and young children result from parents placing them in situations which are beyond the children’s understanding or developmental level. For example, taking a tired toddler to a restaurant at 8:30 p.m. and demanding that the child sit still and remain quiet while waiting for dinner to be served. Or even at the play grounds, seeing parents go up to their toddlers without warning and saying with authority, Come on time to go. Both of these scenarios are recipes for disaster.

      Toddlers love and need routines. They find comfort in knowing what is going to happen. You will rarely ever see a toddler stop what they are doing to immediately comply with a parent wanting the activity to end. You may have seen this situation in a library with a toddler looking at books, or a toddler playing with toys in the aisle of a store. Toddlers need transition warnings to move them on to the next activity, for example, As soon as you are finished with this book, we need to leave. I recommend parents use a little negotiation to move the toddler along, such as, Why don’t we finish the book here, then check it out to read at home? And if this negotiation doesn’t work, a parent might give the child two choices: We can walk over to the desk to check out the book, or I will carry you over to the desk. At that point, it is vital for a parent to follow through with their actions.

      Toddlers are very powerful, independent people dealing with conflicts. They want to be separate from their parents, but still feel the bonds of attachment with them. Also, toddlers want to become their ‘own person’—and they do this by asserting themselves. Believe it or not, this process is something we want our children to go through on the road to becoming responsible, independent adults.

      Parents need to understand that it is impossible to make toddlers eat, sleep or go to the bathroom ‘on cue’. And since independence and resistance is a toddler characteristic, these activities can be even more ‘charged with emotion’ in toddler and parent interactions. Toddlers can become very vocal and emotional. It seems that the parent has ‘lost the battle.’ Temper tantrums are within the range of typical toddler behaviors and a screaming toddler or one in a full tantrum cannot be reasoned with or is even cognizant of their parent. It may be embarrassing to the parent, but as an early childhood educator, I view it as a normal behavior. Of course, I have the luxury of being more objective and not mired in the emotion of the moment. Before ‘giving up,’ there are things a parent can do to reduce these outbursts and still achieve the desired goal.

      Eating, Sleeping and Toileting

      Solutions to these emotional situations are found in consistent routines and expectations. The more consistent the toddler’s life is, the more comfort she feels. The routines a parent establishes need to fit the child, parent and family life. If your toddler takes a long time to wake up and get dressed in the mornings, perhaps an earlier bedtime is needed and an earlier wake-up time. Making the morning fun and getting a toddler dressed, cleaned and fed can be enhanced through nursery rhymes, songs, music and discussions about the day ahead. Children are keen observers of parents’ moods and emotions, so parents want to be calm and have a consistent manner.

      Naptime and bedtime need consistency as well. A bath, tooth brushing and storybook reading can be a special time with your toddler. Perhaps this is a time not to include siblings, but an activity just for the two of you.

      Parents often ask me about toddlers moving out of diapers and using the toilet. First, toddlers need to be emotionally and physically ready (have bowel and bladder muscle control), have an interest in it and a consistent routine adapted to toileting. Toddlers can be fine toileting at home, but scared of the noise of a public toilet flushing. Recognizing these emotions can help parents prepare their toddlers for the toilet sounds and decide who should do the ‘flushing’. I am not a believer in using stickers or

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