Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, How to Say it, and When to Listen Audiobook (Free)

New York Moments bestselling author Dr. Wendy Mogel “shows parents the dialect had a need to converse with their daughters and sons at every stage of existence. It’s kind and adoring, but it’s also strategic” (Chicago Tribune).

Many parents are perfectly great communicators—unless they’re speaking with their children. Then, all too often, their pitch increases and they run into as pleading, indignant, wounded, outraged. In firmness and body gestures they transmission, I can’t deal with it when you act like a child.

Dr..READING MORE about Tone of voice Lessons for Parents: What to Claim, How to Mention it, so when to Listen Wendy Mogel, “one of the most astute psychologists on the planet (Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling writer of Grit) saw this pattern time and again in her clinical practice. In response, she developed an amazingly effective series of “voice lessons,” which she shared with parents who had been struggling with their kids. The results were instant: a change in vocal style led to children who had been calmer, listened even more attentively, and communicated with more warmness, respect, and sincerity.

In Tone of voice Lessons for Parents, Mogel elaborates on her novel clinical approach, revealing how each age and stage of a kid’s life provides new opportunities to connect through language. Sketching from sources as diverse as neuroscience, fairy stories, and anthropology, Mogel offers specific guidance for talking to children over the expanse of youth and adolescence. She also explains the best ways to talk about your son or daughter to partners, exes, and grandparents, as well as to teachers, instructors, and caretakers.

Throughout the book, Mogel addresses the distraction of digital devices—the way they impact our connection with our families, and what we can do about any of it. “In this smart and useful book, Wendy Mogel explains how the tenor of the remarks may make as much difference as their content…and displays how minor modifications may help lower the natural stress of parent-child associations” (Andrew Solomon, bestselling writer of Far From the Tree).