Family Whispering
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Family Whispering

The Baby Whisperer's Commonsense Strategies for Communicating and Connecting with the People You Love and Making Your Whole Family Stronger

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Family Whispering

The Baby Whisperer's Commonsense Strategies for Communicating and Connecting with the People You Love and Making Your Whole Family Stronger

About this book

From the famous Baby Whisperer comes "this warm, accessible, and highly practical guide" (Gretchen Rubin #1 New York Times bestselling author) to help families of all sizes and backgrounds live, love, and thrive. "Parenting is something you do. Family is something you are." —Tracy HoggBefore her untimely death in 2004, Tracy—aka the Baby Whisperer—and her longtime collaborator, journalist Melinda Blau, conceived a fourth book that would apply the commonsense principles of baby whispering to the "whole family." This ground-breaking book explains why "family" is defined by much more than the relationship between parent and child. By widening the lens to focus on the family as an entity, Blau uses the Baby Whisperer philosophy to illuminate how the multiple bonds and interactions that unfold within a household of adults and children coalesce to form a larger family dynamic. By taking this wider perspective, she enables you to see everyday challenges—such as sibling rivalry, communication, and time management—with fresh eyes.Informed both by research and stories of real families, this new book is filled with the handy tips and memorable acronyms that Baby Whisperer fans have come to expect. The advice is simple, practical, and often counterintuitive (asking kids to help more around the home can make them happier; setbacks can often make a family closer). The hopeful message is that with insight, awareness, and "family-think, " we can actually design our families to be happier and more productive, improving the daily lives of parents and kids—and, thereby, benefiting society as a whole in the process.

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Information

Publisher
Atria Books
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781451654509
eBook ISBN
9781451654516
Subtopic
Mental Health & Wellbeing

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Prologue: Family Matters
  4. Chapter One: Shift Your Focus
  5. Chapter Two: What Your Family Is
  6. Chapter Three: Individuals: Grow Up And Show Up
  7. Chapter Four: Relationships: Your First Priority
  8. Chapter Five: Adult Family Ties
  9. Chapter Six: Context: Your Family’S Routine
  10. Chapter Seven: Stakeholders In The Family Co-Op
  11. Chapter Eight: Chore Wars
  12. Chapter Nine: Expect Change
  13. Chapter Ten: Sib Wrangling
  14. Chapter Eleven: Parent-Child Conflicts
  15. Chapter Twelve: Family “Grit”
  16. Epilogue: Shelter From The Storm
  17. Afterword: Baby Whispering: The Legacy
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Appendix I: The Whole Family Test
  20. Appendix II: The Twelve Essential Troubleshooting Questions For The Whole Family
  21. Appendix III: What We Read
  22. About Melinda Blau and Tracy Hogg
  23. Index
  24. Copyright