--- product_id: 37570131 title: "How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 (The How To Talk Series)" price: "€ 29.36" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sk/products/37570131-how-to-talk-so-little-kids-will-listen-a-survival store_origin: SK region: Slovakia --- # How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 (The How To Talk Series) **Price:** € 29.36 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 (The How To Talk Series) - **How much does it cost?** € 29.36 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sk](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/37570131-how-to-talk-so-little-kids-will-listen-a-survival) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk , the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed “The Parenting Bible.” For nearly forty years, parents have turned to How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk for its respectful and effective solutions to the unending challenges of raising children. Now, in response to growing demand, Adele’s daughter, Joanna Faber, along with Julie King, tailor How to Talk ’s powerful communication skills to parents of children ages two to seven. Faber and King, each a parenting expert in her own right, share their wisdom accumulated over years of conducting How To Talk workshops with parents, teachers, and pediatricians. With a lively combination of storytelling, cartoons, and observations from their workshops, they provide concrete tools and tips that will transform your relationship with the children in your life. What do you do with a little kid who…won’t brush her teeth…screams in his car seat…pinches the baby...refuses to eat vegetables…throws books in the library...runs rampant in the supermarket? Organized by common challenges and conflicts, this book is an essential manual of communication strategies, including a chapter that addresses the special needs of children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders. This user-friendly guide will empower parents and caregivers of young children to forge rewarding, joyful relationships with terrible two-year-olds, truculent three-year-olds, ferocious four-year-olds, foolhardy five-year-olds, self-centered six-year-olds, and the occasional semi-civilized seven-year-old. And, it will help little kids grow into self-reliant big kids who are cooperative and connected to their parents, teachers, siblings, and peers. Review: This book has done nothing less than change my relationship with my 5 year old! - Ok, so I’ve been wanting to write a review for this book since I received it – when it first came out – but I can’t find it in my house. I think that my child took it and is reading it so that he can learn all our tricks. Haha. My child doesn’t actually read yet but I am lucky I did before it went missing because it has done no less than change my relationship with him. How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen is full of great, doable advice that is general enough for any situation, but with specific examples so that you know exactly what the authors are trying to explain. The real-life examples could easily have come from my family. For example, the child who wants something that fell into a crack in his car seat and it is inaccessible to him and to me, the driver. Joanna and Julie give great advice on how to respond to difficult situations with little kids that could easily cause a major meltdown. For example, when the thing falls into the crack in the car seat and I can’t reach it, in the past my child would start yelling and screaming and then move into a full-on tantrum. I always felt that I had two choices: 1: I could pull over and stop, get out of the car, open the door where his car seat is, and retrieve the thing. That would stop the tantrum before it starts, but it would teach him that he is welcome to have his way whenever he threatens me with a tantrum. Or, 2: I could not get the thing, tell him to live with it for the 10 minutes (or whatever) until we get to where we are going. That response would surely invite crying escalating, into a full-on, inconsolable tantrum as the ride went on. I would have to listen to the screaming for the whole ride and then deal with it when we got to where we are going. Julie and Joanna suggest a great third response: agree with my child that the thing is really important. Tell him that I wish I could reach the car seat to retrieve it. Then really get dramatic with it: talk about having a button on the dashboard that I could just push and a hundred of those things would magically appear! And then ask what we could do with a hundred of those things, until my child is so caught up in the fantasy that he has forgotten how much he wants the thing and we get to where we are going safe, sound, and happy. I’ve actually had to do this a number of times since reading the book. My child’s response still amazes me every time! It sounds like magic, but it’s not. It is a way of listening to your child and validating his/her experience. How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen gives lots of ideas, stories and examples of how to do this in any number of difficult situations. I do want to be clear, this isn’t magic, and sometimes even the best skills don’t produce sunny results. But more often than not, as a result of the skills I was able to pick up from this book, I can at least head off tantrums and other bad behavior before it starts, even if my child isn’t all smiles. Review: Actually useful and accessible reading with immediate benefits. - This is probably one of the best books I’ve read about parenting yet. It has renewed my faith in good parenting material. I read it again every time I feel myself slip into the old way of reacting and overreacting to bad behavior. The other day my daughter had the worst tantrum I’ve seen yet. She was shouting into the neighborhood with the door open at one point. I didn’t react with my best form, and she only escalated. What my grandpappy and grandmappy may tell as advice was not working. So I reread the book, used some tools from the toolbox. And they are working (again) to develop a relationship with my kids. And that is part of the importance of this book. We are developing trust with our kids, no matter how strong a personality they have. (I have one with and one without a strong personality.) She is currently doing well with us but I have a feeling I will need to reread this book several times and even purchase the other versions for older kids and adolescents as well. I don’t want that to seem like I worship this book or anything. Not everything works. But it is a huge box of potential tools that MAY work. To be given the reason why kids do what they do makes this book is amazing. And it was written by having focus groups that reported their successes and failures over a long period of time. So it’s basically been crowdsourced before that was a buzzword. Which means it’s not just one idea, it’s multiple stories of what works and what doesn’t. And it’s been well organized in its presentation so that learners like me can reference back so much better. The stories come from parents who want good relationships with the most important people in their lives—their kids. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,041 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Family Conflict Resolution #5 in Popular Child Psychology #7 in Baby & Toddler Parenting | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 10,267 Reviews | ## Images ![How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 (The How To Talk Series) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81RzEkf0IgL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book has done nothing less than change my relationship with my 5 year old! *by R***. on March 9, 2017* Ok, so I’ve been wanting to write a review for this book since I received it – when it first came out – but I can’t find it in my house. I think that my child took it and is reading it so that he can learn all our tricks. Haha. My child doesn’t actually read yet but I am lucky I did before it went missing because it has done no less than change my relationship with him. How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen is full of great, doable advice that is general enough for any situation, but with specific examples so that you know exactly what the authors are trying to explain. The real-life examples could easily have come from my family. For example, the child who wants something that fell into a crack in his car seat and it is inaccessible to him and to me, the driver. Joanna and Julie give great advice on how to respond to difficult situations with little kids that could easily cause a major meltdown. For example, when the thing falls into the crack in the car seat and I can’t reach it, in the past my child would start yelling and screaming and then move into a full-on tantrum. I always felt that I had two choices: 1: I could pull over and stop, get out of the car, open the door where his car seat is, and retrieve the thing. That would stop the tantrum before it starts, but it would teach him that he is welcome to have his way whenever he threatens me with a tantrum. Or, 2: I could not get the thing, tell him to live with it for the 10 minutes (or whatever) until we get to where we are going. That response would surely invite crying escalating, into a full-on, inconsolable tantrum as the ride went on. I would have to listen to the screaming for the whole ride and then deal with it when we got to where we are going. Julie and Joanna suggest a great third response: agree with my child that the thing is really important. Tell him that I wish I could reach the car seat to retrieve it. Then really get dramatic with it: talk about having a button on the dashboard that I could just push and a hundred of those things would magically appear! And then ask what we could do with a hundred of those things, until my child is so caught up in the fantasy that he has forgotten how much he wants the thing and we get to where we are going safe, sound, and happy. I’ve actually had to do this a number of times since reading the book. My child’s response still amazes me every time! It sounds like magic, but it’s not. It is a way of listening to your child and validating his/her experience. How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen gives lots of ideas, stories and examples of how to do this in any number of difficult situations. I do want to be clear, this isn’t magic, and sometimes even the best skills don’t produce sunny results. But more often than not, as a result of the skills I was able to pick up from this book, I can at least head off tantrums and other bad behavior before it starts, even if my child isn’t all smiles. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Actually useful and accessible reading with immediate benefits. *by C***S on May 11, 2019* This is probably one of the best books I’ve read about parenting yet. It has renewed my faith in good parenting material. I read it again every time I feel myself slip into the old way of reacting and overreacting to bad behavior. The other day my daughter had the worst tantrum I’ve seen yet. She was shouting into the neighborhood with the door open at one point. I didn’t react with my best form, and she only escalated. What my grandpappy and grandmappy may tell as advice was not working. So I reread the book, used some tools from the toolbox. And they are working (again) to develop a relationship with my kids. And that is part of the importance of this book. We are developing trust with our kids, no matter how strong a personality they have. (I have one with and one without a strong personality.) She is currently doing well with us but I have a feeling I will need to reread this book several times and even purchase the other versions for older kids and adolescents as well. I don’t want that to seem like I worship this book or anything. Not everything works. But it is a huge box of potential tools that MAY work. To be given the reason why kids do what they do makes this book is amazing. And it was written by having focus groups that reported their successes and failures over a long period of time. So it’s basically been crowdsourced before that was a buzzword. Which means it’s not just one idea, it’s multiple stories of what works and what doesn’t. And it’s been well organized in its presentation so that learners like me can reference back so much better. The stories come from parents who want good relationships with the most important people in their lives—their kids. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Most helpful tools I've discovered so far *by T***Y on January 16, 2025* I wish I could give this book 10 stars out of 5! At age 53, I've had my 2.5 yo and 5 yo nephew and niece sort of paradrop into my life as an auntie, a pseudo-parental figure who's having to work to catch up quickly on figuring it all out. This book is GOLD. I bought in hard copy rather than Kindle, and took a highlighter to it like it's a college textbook, also making notes in the margins. I'm passing it around my household and others in our "village" of raising kids together. The best thing I got from it is the reminder that children will develop their problem solving skills, and conflict resolution methods from the actions of adults while they're young. The tools in this book not only get us through the moments that are challenging for parental figures right now -- but they're going to teach the kids how to resolve these situations on their own later. GOLD, I tell you! We've had such immediate success with, "Let's make a list of 3 things we like/dislike about [whatever the desired but unavailable subject is]" -- "Let's draw a picture of [the desired thing or person that's unavailable right now]" -- and progressively more success with just acknowledging and labeling feelings. I really enjoy how the book encourages "acknowledging" and "accepting" feelings rather than "validating," which I think is an important and refined difference. I can't thank the authors enthusiastically enough, or recommend this book to interested readers with enough confidence. ## Frequently Bought Together - How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 (The How To Talk Series) - The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind - How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sk/products/37570131-how-to-talk-so-little-kids-will-listen-a-survival](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/37570131-how-to-talk-so-little-kids-will-listen-a-survival) --- *Product available on Desertcart Slovakia* *Store origin: SK* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*