Publications
Listening to Children Set + Bonus Material 
Patty Wipfler warmly and sensibly walks you through the challenges of parenting and explains how children’s emotions work. The booklets cover the tools and opportunities for each of us to do the best possible job of raising children. Due to popular demand, you will now receive Setting Limits and Listening Partnerships for Parents with the Listening to Children Set. Both PDF and hard copy versions are available.
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Listening to Children Individual Booklets
Patty Wipfler warmly and sensibly walks you through the challenges of parenting and explains how children’s emotions work. The 7 booklets cover the tools and opportunities for each of us to do the best possible job of connecting with our children. The titles include, How Children's Emotions Work, Special Time, Playlistening, Crying, Tantrums and Indignation, Healing Children's Fears, and Reaching for Your Angry Child.Add Booklets to Cart $7.00
Supporting Adolescents Booklet
The teen years are so important and so challenging! Strengthen the connection you have with your teen, and get fresh ideas about how to be on your teen’s side, yet exercise good judgment and set limits when necessary. Both PDF and hard copy versions are available.
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Supporting Adolescents + Listening Partnerships for Parents (Combine & Save!)
The teen years are so important and so challenging! Strengthen the connection you have with your teen, and get fresh ideas about how to be on your teen’s side, yet exercise good judgment and set limits when necessary. This booklet combo pack will also lay out the instructions for effective Listening Partnerships so you can get the support you need while handling challenging teenage moments.
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Listening Partnerships for Parents: An Overview 
In many years of work with parents, we have found that if parents take regular turns listening to each other, explore thoughts, set goals, and work through the tensions of everyday life, parents care more effectively for themselves and their families. This booklet will lay out the instructions for effective Listening Partnerships and the Parenting by Connection approach to understanding your child's emotional needs.
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Leading a Parent Resource Group
Listening is the cornerstone skill which makes resource groups most effective. As parents learn to listen to each other well, the benefits spread to their relationships within their families. Here is a step-by-step approach to organizing and leading a parent resource group. You’ll have the opportunity to care effectively for a whole group of hardworking, dedicated people. And you’ll be in a position to help parents gain deeper respect for themselves and for each other.
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Leading a Parent Resource Group + Listening Partnerships for Parents (Combine & Save!)
This combo pack is a step-by-step approach to organizing and leading a parent resource group. You'll learn how to effectively care for a group of hardworking, dedicated parents, and help parents gain a deeper respect for themselves and for each other. You will also learn complete instructions for for effective Listening Partnerships to create your own parent support systems.
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Audio Teleseminars
Setting Limits without Saying "Time Out!"
Children need adults to create healthy boundaries with warmth and authority, but without the awful power struggles. Learn how to set limits in ways that lay the groundwork for cooperative relationships for life. You'll learn tools you can use to make setting limits a comfortable, even enjoyable, part of building a healthy relationship with your child. Presented by: Patty Wipfler and Angela Jernigan | Recoded live on April 21, 2011 | 58 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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Helping Your Child Sleep When children can't sleep through the night, the cause is most likely some kind of emotional tension that bubbles up in the child's mind during sleep. There is an effective and supportive way to handle a child’s sleep troubles. Learn to dissolve the tensions that wake him, and allows you to help him recover from those tensions and sleep peacefully. Presented by: Patty Wipfler and Todd Erickson | Recorded live on June 2, 2011 | 53 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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"That's Mine!" Understanding Sharing Timing turns makes parents into enforcers when they would much rather be connectors. Learn how to help your child with the things that stand in the way of natural generosity. Presented by: Patty Wipfler and Alaiya Aguilar | Recorded live on September 23, 2011 | 75 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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Healing the Hurt of SeparationUnresolved feelings about separation are often at the root of difficult behaviors: withdrawing, biting, whining or pickiness. In this talk you will learn how to add the warmth and connection necessary to resolve these feelings and inspire confidence and caring. Presented by: Patty Wipfler | Recorded live on May 19, 2011 | 57 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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Bouncing Off The Walls: How Roughhousing Helps Highly Active ChildrenPlay--especially active physical play--makes kids smart, emotionally intelligent, physically fit, and joyful. In this teleseminar, Patty Wipfler, and Lawrence Cohen, Ph.D., author of both Playful Parenting and his newest book, The Art of Roughhousing, teach you how roughhousing can benefit your child's body, brain, spirit, and connection to you. Join us to understand how certain ways of playing with your child can set kids up for creativity and curiosity, better relationships and academic success. Presented by: Patty Wipfler and Lawrence Cohen | Recorded live on July 28, 2011 | 62 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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Raising Boys To Be Gentle, Girls To Be StrongTrying to tackle stereotypes? Guide your children toward being boys who can care about the feelings of others, and girls who are comfortable with adventure and physical challenge. Presented by: Todd Erickson and Kirsten Nottleson | Recorded live on June 23, 2011 | 62 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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"No More Hitting!" Has your child ever lashed out at another child, or at a sibling? Have you been puzzled to see your child hit without even seeming angry? Children don't want to attack others. They play well when they feel connected. But when children lose their sense of connection, they feel tense, frightened, or isolated. In this “emotional emergency,” they may lash out at other children. You'll learn to provide limits with the warmth and authority children need to shift into happier interactions with peers and siblings. Presented by: Patty Wipfler and Dr. Laura Markham of Aha! Parenting | Recorded live on November 17, 2011 | 61 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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Can Attachment Research Make Us Better Parents?Can the science of human bonding make us better parents? What light does cutting-edge interpersonal neurobiology shed on happier families? Review the research on human attachment and how it informs our parenting. Presented by: Julianne Idleman | Recorded live on Feburary 2, 2010 | 60 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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Feelings for FathersAre you a father who is struggling to build a connection with your kids? Do you want to learn about the value of roughhousing and play? We will discuss tools to help fathers build connection in their families. Learn the specifics of how we address feelings and participate in discussion with other fathers. Presented by: Tom Idleman | Recorded live on July 7, 2010 | 47 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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Play That Builds Resilient KidsHow do we help our kids be resilient? How do we teach them to roll with the punches and adapt to the challenges of life? Listen to Patty Wipfler and parenting expert Janet Lansbury of Elevating Childcare discuss how a strong foundation of jumping on the couch, horseplay and child-initiated adventures help your young one grow up to be sturdy and adaptable throughout all stages of their life. | Presented by: Patty Wipfler and Janet Lansbury | Recorded live on January 19, 2012 | 54 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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Go Play With Your Brother!Sibling rivalry may run rampant, but teaching siblings to play, laugh and roughhouse with each other is vital in building a child's sense of connection with their siblings and us, their parents. We'll give you a new perspective on the value of your children playing together, how to resolve off-track fighting during play and tools for setting limits with warmth that will get them back in the playtime mood. | Presented by: Tosha Schore, Kirsten Nottleson & Robin Setchko | Recorded live on January 23, 2012 | 60 minutes | Instant Download | mp3 format |
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