How to Talk So Kids Will Listen - Listen So Kids Will Talk

5 stars (A Great Guide For Parents) - Of all the parenting books I've read this year this one has been most helpful. I love the cartoons! Sound advice for people who want to improve parenting skills. 5 stars (How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk) - Excellent book. This is as close as I have come to an instruction manual for parenting. 5 stars (the best for parenting) - This book examines love, communication, and methods for bringing up happy, secure, and respectful adults. Isn't this the major goal we all wish for? If you read it, you'll reread it dozens of times. ...
Collins :: Family & Relationships & Parenting :: United States :: Parenting - General :: Parenting :: Life Stages - Adolescence :: Interpersonal communication :: Family & Pa :: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen - Listen So Kids Will Talk

 

Difficult Conversations- How to Discuss what Matters Most

4 stars (Insightful...) - A good resource to improve communication skills and train yourself to be ready to participate in difficult conversations and avoid delaying them. Helped me to face conflict head-on. I would definitely recommend it to everyone! 5 stars (Not Just a Guru Book) - Filled with diverse and accessible examples, this book provides a use framework for dealing with many of life's most awkward moments. 5 stars (Read This Book!) - I couldn't recommend this book more highly. It is easy to read--better yet, easy to understand and implement. Whether you're a student or someone that just wants to understand the dynamics of conversation better, this book should be on your reading list. ...
Penguin Putnam :: Self-Help :: Negotiation in Business :: Negotiation :: Negotiating :: Psychology :: Interpersonal communication :: Interpersonal Relations :: General :: Conflict Reso :: Difficult Conversations- How to Discuss what Matters Most

 

The Interpersonal Communication Book- 10th Edition

5 stars (Great Communication Theory Book... to start off with) - This book is not really orientated at making you a better interpersonal and intercultural communicator (although it could be a start towards this), it is more of a book on interpersonal and intercultural theory. This book was the basis of my Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication Studies course at UQ in Australia. It is very simple to read, a high school student could easily understand this. I think this is a good thing, however, because as some of my lecutures demonstrated, interpersonal communication theory can be very dry and dull at some points! So I am giving this book five stars because althoug simplistic, I believe it tells you the basics of interpersonal comunication theory, and is a great starting book if you are interested in this! 3 stars (Too Much Theory and Not Enough Substance.) - I read through this book as part of an Interpersonal Communication class I took. I'll admit right off the bat that I have a biased view about the book because I read it in a class where I was the only person over 21 in a room full of freshman. With that said, I'm really glad I had the life experiences I've had to protect me from the leftists propaganda contained within. I'm also very thankful that I was never forced to read such dribble when I was a freshman in college because it can really mess you up. Most of the book is based in and upon interpersonal communication theory and there isn't a whole lot of practical information given. Not only that, but the book almost totally ignores the moral and ethical issues that are inherently apparent in interpersonal communication. Instead, the author has taken a humanistic (and fairly Machiavellian) approach and illustrates the power that good interpersonal communication skills can give a person. The book does have some good things to say, but overall it's more of a tool in brainwashing freshmen with useless knowledge than anything else. There's a lot of theory, ...
Allyn - Bacon :: Performing Arts & Theater & General :: Sociology :: Psychology :: Language Arts & Linguistics & Literacy :: Interpersonal Relations :: Interpersonal Communicati :: The Interpersonal Communication Book- 10th Edition

 

Winning With People - Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time

4 stars (Another Winner!) - First of all I want to confess that I am John Maxwell junkie. I not only thoroughly enjoy his books but they help me in becoming a better person. This book is written where every chapter is golden and yet able to stand alone. You can simply open the book to any chapter and it will enrich you. Even though the chapters are segmented into 5 logical sections. I especially liked the chapter entitled, "The Pain Principle: Hurting people hurt people and are easily hurt by them". This chapter increased my empathy and sensitivity for hurting people. It just makes sense that those that lash out are really hurting people. I gave this book 4 stars simply because his best work by far was, "21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership". As helpful as this book was I simply tried to read a chapter each evening before going to sleep. Like a nutritious light snack that won't keep you up all night. 4 stars (Impressed with reservations) - This is the second book I've read from John Maxwell. Overall, I found the book to be well written, personal, and filled with principles, explanations, and anecdotes. Each principle is explained in a manner that should strike a cord in many people. He supports the concept embodied by the principle with anecdotes, both personal and historical. If you are looking for a book to help with interpersonal relationships, this is a good book to to start with. John covers a lot of ground in this book. That would be my major criticism of the book. There are many, many strategies and approaches, and keeping track can get confusing. They are well organized. This will have to be a book that you refer back to as issues in your life come up and you are looking for help. I think Covey's work is more managable and priciple system oriented, but that shouldn't detract from John's work. There is an unlying system, but John's approach appears to be more of set of tools to help you, with each dealing with a specific type of problem. 5 stars (...
Nelson Business :: Business & Economics & Leadership :: Religious aspects :: Leadership :: Interpersonal relations :: Interpersonal communication :: Christianity :: Business&Economi :: Winning With People - Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time

 

Interpersonal Communication - Relating to Others 4th Edition

5 stars (Good source) - This book increases your interpersonal skills. Practical examples. Critical selfreflection of own, driven, innate and unconscious behavior/attitutes. Highly recommended for undergraduate and postgrad students (soc, psy, crim) and teachers! 4 stars (Great interactive CD) - The interactive CD includes websites, video clips, audio clips, and tests, that increase interest in the subject matter. It's fun. 4 stars (Interpersonally...) - ...I read this book for an undergraduate class and thought it was very good. One problem-- the final chapter was too brief, they should have split it into three like the previous edition. ...
Allyn - Bacon :: Language Arts & Disciplines & Communication :: Textbooks :: Language Arts & Linguistics & Literacy :: Language Arts & Disciplines :: Language :: Interpersonal R :: Interpersonal Communication - Relating to Others (4th Edition)

 

Men Are from Mars- Women Are from Venus- A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting W

5 stars (Classic Genius) - This is one of the books that every adult should read. I found several stories in the book which seemed like they were right out of my own life situations -- and you probably will too. It is very universal and will help you. 1 stars (Attention Sister Venuvians: We Must Punish This John Gray By Forever Denying Him Sex!!!) - The most sexist, biased, silly, unfounded, unhelpful waste of time to come from a publishing house in many a moon. This supposed relationship enhancer is the biggest example of playing with a loaded gun since the serpent in the Garden of Eden offered marriage advice to Eve. I know this is now a cult hit but I wonder how many relationships this exercise in stereotyping has busted up? Gray would have us accept that humans are without variation walking examples of either Martians or Venuvians. JMJ, but who on earth falls for this hogswallow? Apparently a lot of people by the sales numbers. Gray would like to make us think all men are confrontation-seeking warriors who reason at waist level. (Actually only half of that statement is true.) He makes a case that men dwell on this plane to spread their DNA, make quick, simple decisions and scratch themselves in public. Women, the less than sage Gray wants it know, are emotion-driven machines turned on and off by nesting instincts, the desire for endless communication and a snuggly need for flattery and security. We are supreme manipulators employing sex as the coin of the realm in the marketplace of romance. This book has all the depth of a three-panel Sunday comic strip. Unfortunately rather than going through the talk show circuit and dying a natural death in the 1990's, I saw a new edition of this was out since the one I read for a class. "Updated!" it proclaimed. What, Gray's going to admit we've evolved a little and are now in the stone age instead of the protoplasmic mating pool he seemed to think we all lived in when he first tossed this inflammatory little cartoon ...
HarperCollins Publishers :: Self-Help :: Marriage :: Love & Sex & Marriage :: Love & Romance :: Interpersonal Relations :: Interpersonal Communication :: Human relations :: Communication i :: Men Are from Mars- Women Are from Venus- A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting W

 

The Five Love Languages of Children

5 stars (5 Love Languages of Children) - This book is right on with the different love languages for children. Just as the original '5 Love Languages' I enjoyed this book and have adopted its principals for my family and grandchildren. It is a must read for all! 4 stars (julia) - The Five Love Languages of Children is practical, informative, touching, and best of all backed with sound Christian perspectives you can trust. If you have difficulty understanding your children love communication you're trying to accomplish, you'll love this book! Gary Chapman will take you through his explanations of the way how you can express your love that can be understood by your children in a fun and inspiring way. Guaranteed to improve your love language if you use even ONE of the tips he gives!Get and use it, for your children are desperately expecting the blessing of your spoken words. Another good book, I highly recommend to all parents who desire to see their children have a blessed life and a heart toward God's Word is "365 Prophetic Promises and Blessings for your Children". Get and use it, for your children are desperately expecting the blessing of your spoken words.. 5 stars (A "Must Read" for every parent.) - This is by far the best book on child communications that I have ever read. The truth offered in this book is both refreshing and enlightening, and offers great insight into learning how to best communicate unconditional love to our children. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all parents, grandparents, and childcare workers. ...
Moody Publishers :: Religion :: Parenting - General :: Parenting :: Parent and child :: Love :: Interpersonal communication in children :: Interpersonal communication in :: Family & Pa :: The Five Love Languages of Children