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How to Get Kids to Listen

Thank you for joining the Funderstanding community!

Funderstanding is very pleased to offer our members a free copy of How to Get Kids to Listen - an ebook written for parents and educators.

How to Get Kids to Listen provides specific communication techniques, strategies, and scenarios to help adults enhance listening skills in children of all ages. Listening games and activities for school and home use are included.

The ebook concludes with communication checklists to help you continually implement the recommended listening techniques and language highlighted in the ebook.

Here is a sample of some things you'll learn in the ebook:

Paying full attention is critical to listening effectively
Acknowledging children's feelings with a simple one word response makes them feel valued
Naming children's feelings makes them feel supported and it teaches them how to independently problem solve
How to listen deeply for the feelings below the surface, and how to effectively address them
Asking open ended questions promotes conversation and helps improve speaking and listening skills

We hope How to Get Kids to Listen provides you with valuable tools to improve your own listening and communication skills, as well as that of your children/students.

Kids And Money – Report

Successful marketing and retailing to kids must take into account the real life realities of kids’ relationship to money. This report gives an insightful look at how kids obtain money, how they think about money and what they do with money. The information in this report was acquired through an intense study of kids at home and in a variety of retail environments. The research was supplemented by in-depth interviews.

You will see money from a kid’s perspective. It includes a section on implications that gives concrete ideas on how to use this insight. You can use the report to inspire your own brainstorming or leverage the implications detailed.