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Parenting by Connection
by Patty Wipfler
24 pages.
This booklet offers a cogent description of Parenting by Connection,
our approach to building responsive parent-child relationships.
It gives an overview on why connection matters, key issues for parents,
and the specific Listening Tools for parents that are more
fully described in Listening to
Children, Listening
Partnerships for Parents, and Leading
a Parent Resource Group. It also presents the four steps
to our program for strengthening parent-child relationships, and
strategies for building parent leadership.
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Listening to Children
by Patty Wipfler
A set of seven booklets, 93 pages. Available
in Spanish.
This is our most popular publication. Written for parents and caregivers, it explains in down-to-earth terms what children want and need from the people who love them. You'll learn why children express their feelings so fully, and how to help them with their difficulties. You'll learn how your child's mind works, and how listening to your child allows the two of you to work together to relieve you child's fears, frustrations, and anger. Winner of the NAPPA Gold award in 2006. The seven booklets include: How Children's Emotions Work, Special Time, Playlistening, Crying, Tantrums and Indignation, Healing Children's Fears, and Reaching For Your Angry Child.
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Listening to Children Audio
CDs
Read by Rob Mauldin and Patty Wipfler
3 CDs, 2 ½ hours total.
These CDs are a reading of six booklets in the Listening to Children series. They carry the warm, easy, caring tone that we reach for as parents. Listening to these tapes gives you information about paying attention to children that can't be transmitted in written form. Many commuting parents use them to orient their attention on the trip home from work.
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Listening, A Tool For
Caring Parents
by Patty Wipfler
7 pages. Available in Spanish.
A brief overview of listening as a tool for building support
for ourselves as parents, and as a tool for helping our children
shed their upsets. Explains why children's upsets are frequently
wrapped around "petty issues", and why children often "blow up"
after a good time with a parent.
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Setting Limits with
Children
by Patty Wipfler
18 pages. Available in Spanish.
A concise explanation of why children's behavior goes "off
track," and how to set a limit that brings you and your child back
into close communication and cooperation again. This booklet gives
parents and other caregivers the information they need to distinguish
when a limit needs to be set, and guidelines that help us set limits
with love and respect.
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Supporting
Adolescents
by Patty Wipfler
40 pages. Available in Spanish.
This booklet offers parents of adolescents a new perspective
on the challenges in teenagers' lives. It gives parents guidelines
for listening, parent-to-parent and parent-to-teen, to strengthen
the connections we have with our teenagers and to unravel the snarls
that can make these years confusing and difficult.
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Listening Partnerships
for Parents
by Patty Wipfler
Illustrated, 47 pages. Available in
Spanish.
A practical guide to listening parent-to-parent. We've
found that parents who set up listening partnerships make steady
gains in their ability to be pleased with themselves and with their
children. This booklet describes how the listening process works
to empower parents and to relieve the stresses in our lives. How
to set up a listening partnership, how to listen, how to use a listener,
and how to begin working on key issues for parents are discussed
in depth.
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Leading a Parent Resource
Group
by Patty Wipfler
Illustrated, 23 pages. Available
in Spanish.
A step-by-step manual on how to to lead an effective parent support group. How to set up your group, how to conduct that important first meeting, and various formats that have proven to be effective in parent groups are discussed in depth. Includes two organizational fliers to help get the group started. The companion booklet, Listening Partnerships for Parents, outlines the listening process that is key in conducting your parent group.
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Parenting by Connection Study Group Leader's Manual
by Patty Wipfler
This manual will be your guide to starting a Parenting by Connection Study Group for yourself and your friends or colleagues. It will show you how to create a learning environment in which parents are respected and their efforts become instructive to all involved. It's a great way to build support for the work of nurturing young children.
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Setting Limits With Children DVD
A talk by Patty Wipfler
1 hour.
In this DVD, Patty Wipfler outlines the Hand in Hand approach to young children, and illustrates the limit-setting process that can bring parents and children closer. She answers the questions of parents in the audience, and works with a parent to demonstrate how parents can use a listener to release the stress that makes setting limits such a challenge. (VHS or PAL Videotape also available: contact Hand in Hand office to order this item.)
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Playlistening DVD
Narrated by Patty Wipfler
5 fathers and mothers demonstrate playlistening with their children.
You can watch parents in action, building closeness and trust with
their children in play. How to begin Playlistening, how
to set limits during Playlistening, how children bring
up issues they want to work through, and how to involve more than
one child in Playlistening. Both fathers and mothers provide
enlightening examples. Parents and children of varied ages and backgrounds
are included. (VHS or PAL Videotape also available: contact Hand in Hand office to order this item.)
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I'm Chocolate, You're
Vanilla:
Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious
World
by Marguerite A. Wright, Ed.D.
This book is a must-read for parents of every background. Dr. Wright
outlines how children's understanding of skin color, race, and racism
develops from early childhood to adolescence. She offers well-researched
insights into what kinds of information children can absorb at each
age, and how parents and schools can help inoculate children against
the damaging effects of racism.
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Playful Parenting
by Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D.
Dr. Cohen's Playful Parenting and Hand in Hand's Parenting by Connection
are both rooted in respect for parents' and children's need for
closeness and emotional support. Dr. Cohen shows parents ways they
can keep communication open between themselves and their children,
and he writes with grace and clarity. His treasure trove of anecdotes
are illustrative and inspiring.
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