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How To Talk So Kids Will Listen: An Introduction to the How To Talk approach

With bestselling author Julie King

Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
7:00pm on Zoom
Register on Eventbrite in early 2025

Are you getting worn down by morning mayhem, bedtime battles, sibling scuffles, dawdling and defiance?

Do you try to avoid using threats, bribes and punishments, but find yourself using them anyway, just to survive the day?

Would you like to learn practical and effective methods that will make life with children easier and more satisfying?

Come hear best-selling author Julie King introduce parents of children grades Kindergarten through 8th to the language that reduces conflict, strengthens connection, and promotes cooperation between adults and children.

For any parent who finds themselves locked in a power struggle with children or wondering how to manage a tricky situation (in other words, everybody at one time or another), this presentation demonstrates truly practical methods to use humor, creativity and respect, instead of bribes, threats and punishments, to engage the cooperation of children. How To Talk is at the same time a whole new perspective on the parent-child relationship, and a down-to-earth how-to guide that will make life with children less stressful and more satisfying.

About Julie King

Julie King is the co-author, with Joanna Faber, of two best-selling books: How To Talk So LITTLE Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 and How To Talk When Kids Won't Listen: Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, and Other Challenges of Childhood. Their books have been translated into 30 languages world-wide. Julie and Joanna also collaborated on the companion app HOW TO TALK: Parenting Tips in Your Pocket, and the app Parenting Hero. Julie leads workshops online, consults with parents of children ages two to teens by phone and video, and speaks publicly to schools, businesses and parent groups across the U.S. and internationally. She received her AB from Princeton University and a JD from Yale Law School. Julie and her husband live in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, where they are visited now and then by their three grown children. Visit her website at www.julieking.org, on Facebook: @faberandking, and on Instagram: @howtotalk.forparents.