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Getting Thru to Kids
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Contact: Phillip Mountrose 805.473.0732
Ten
Tips for Talking to Your Kids
Want
your child to solve problems? It’s a learned skill – and you can teach it.
Phillip Mountrose, veteran educator and author of the award-winning Getting
Thru to Kids books, offers 10 powerful tips for teaching kids to come up
with their own answers.
Tip 1: Match
your child’s posture. If
the child is sitting, you sit. If your kid stands, you stand.
Tip 2: Let
your kid talk.
The aim is to have the child reach the conclusion.
Tip 3: Use
your child’s words.
Be careful not to mimic or be too repetitive, though.
Tip 4: Don’t
try to fix it. Let
the child learn how to handle problems within reason.
Tip 5: Be
concrete.
The younger the child, the simpler the language.
Tip 6: Listen
to the silences, too.
Allow for periods of no talking during your conversation.
Tip 7: Be
calm. You
have to be relatively calm yourself to be able to listen.
Tip 8: Be
sure your child is ready. If
your child is too upset, wait until another time.
Tip 9: Share
your thoughts.
Then work out a mutually acceptable solution.
Tip
10: Let
your child discover the solution. It’s
important for your child to come up with the answer whenever possible, even if
guided by gentle prompts from you. When participating more fully in discovering
answers, your child will be more willing to carry out her share of the solution
– and know how to do it next time.
Phillip
Mountrose's award-winning books
Getting
Thru To Kids: Problem Solving with Children Ages 6-18 and
Tips
and Tools For Getting Thru To Kids
are available from
www.gettingthru.org,
Amazon.com, or a 24-hour ordering lint at 800-431-1579, and at your local
bookstore.
For
more information on EFT, family resources and personal and spiritual growth,
visit www.gettingthru.org.
There
are also video tapes that demonstrate the techniques presented in the book.
To interview Phillip Mountrose or receive a review copy of Tips
and Tools for Getting Thru to Kids or
Getting Thru to Your Emotions with
EFT
contact
Holistic Communications at ph: 805-489-9315 or e-mail phil@gettingthru.org.
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Contact: Phillip Mountrose 805-489-9315
The
5 Biggest Parenting Mistakes
When
it comes to handling kids, most parents know they’re amateurs. The challenge
is they’re supposed to be professionals. Parents are somehow supposed to know
just what to do with children on a daily basis.
Phillip
Mountrose,
veteran educator and author of the innovative
“Getting Thru to Kids” communication series, helps identify common
parenting mistakes and suggests some practical remedies:
1.
Inconsistency
with rules. If you don’t follow through on our rules
, children learn that you
don’t really mean what you say. Your inconsistency
also produces anxiety in both you and children. (The exception
is when you determine that your decision is unworkable or unsuitable. Then
it’s time to acknowledge the error and explain the needed changes.) The old
advice still holds true: Tell kids what you want them to do, and then have them
do it.
2.
Adults
talking too much. “Kids
just don’t listen.” This common complaint by adults brings up the question:
How did kids acquire these poor listening
skills? Adults tend to dominate discussions with children.
When you talk to kids after careful
listening
, you are more informed
and aware. Then your words mean more and kids naturally listen to you.
3.
Words
not matching your actions. Too
often children see their elders blaming
, denying, and excusing
instead of owning up to mistakes
. Children welcome it
when you admit that you erred or don’t know something, acknowledging that you
struggle, too. Like fresh air, your honesty
comes as a relief to kids. They are liberated, no longer
dependent on the all-knowing adult. Children then become freer to learn from
their mistakes
and grow as well.
4.
Poor
boundaries. Here
is an easy explanation of boundaries
for children: Tell them there is you—your body and possessions—and the rest of the world is not
you. Some other boundaries—such as not discussing a person’s income, weight
or age—may vary from person to person. Children should be sensitized to these
areas. Also, help children become aware of approaching a person who has
experienced upsetting changes, such as a divorce or the death of a loved one.
5.
Not
spending enough quality time with kids. Find ways to have fun with your children. Ask them
what they want to do. Remember to listen to them. Enjoy the silent times, too,
when you are just together. Set a goal to spend time doing things and being with
your child. It will benefit everyone.
Phillip
Mountrose's award-winning books Getting Thru To Kids: Problem Solving with
Children Ages 6-18 and Tips and Tools For Getting Thru To Kids are
available at bookstores or on the Internet at Amazon.com or direct from Holistic
Communications 800-431-1579. He also recently co-wrote Getting Thru to Your
Emotions with EFT: Tap into Your Hidden Potential with the Emotional Freedom
Techniques with his wife Jane Mountrose.
There are also video tapes that
demonstrate the techniques presented in the books and audio tapes.
The
books and tapes are available from www.gettingthru.org,
Amazon.com, or a 24-hour telephone ordering line at 800-431-1579. Books only are
also available at your local bookstore. For more information on EFT, family
resources and personal and spiritual growth, visit www.gettingthru.org.
To
schedule an interview with Phillip Mountrose or order a review copy of Tips and Tools for Getting Thru to Kids
or any of his books, contact Holistic
Communications at 805-489-9315 or
phil@gettingthru.org.
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Eight
Ways that Every Child Can Win
Kids,
like adults, want to succeed. If they can’t succeed in socially acceptable
ways, they will find anti-social ways to succeed. Our role is to show them
constructive ways to win so they can help themselves as well as others.
Winning
need not be at another’s expense. Phillip Mountrose, author of the Getting Thru to Kids series,
suggests eight different ways to really win:
1.
Raise
personal standards. Trying
your best is a crucial principle that builds pride and benefits others.
Teach your child how to set reasonable goals for self-improvement.
2.
Find
uplifting stories. Let’s
emphasize how people have succeeded in difficult circumstances, valuing the
strength of the human spirit. Look for those stories and examples to share with
children. Help kids realize that they are becoming a success story themselves.
3.
Expand
school success.
Encourage children by helping them recognize their own interests and successes
. Discuss your own
interests and successes in a way that will help them.
4.
Break
success into small steps.
For example,
winning
at math means learning numbers, reviewing pages, and asking
for help, which improves grades, skills, and self-satisfaction.
5.
Develop
friendships. Help
your children with areas that promote genuine friendship, like gaining
trust,
being honest, exploring feelings
, and establishing
healthy boundaries.
6.
Appreciate
challenges.
Every time we
win can be an opportunity to appreciate the challenge the opponent gave us.
Every time we lose we can learn that much more about winning.
7.
Connect
success with cooperation. Help
kids connect their actions with themselves and others, so they continue to
understand that life is an individual effort as well as a collaborative one.
8.
Emphasize learning
from each situation.
Children then realize they will learn something of value regardless of how the
situation turned out.
Educator
and counselor, Phillip Mountrose is the author of Getting Thru to Kids: Problem Solving with Children Ages 6 to 18.
and Tips
and Tools for Getting Thru to Kids: 25 Great Ways to Communicate with Children
and Teenagers, (a Parents’ Choice Winner). He also co-wrote with his wife
Jane Getting Thru to Your Emotions with
EFT and Getting
Thru to Your Soul.
There
are also video tapes that demonstrate the techniques presented in the books and
audio tapes.
The
books and tapes are available from www.gettingthru.org, Amazon.com, or a 24-hour telephone ordering line at 800-431-1579. Books only are
also available at your local bookstore. For more information on EFT, family
resources and personal and spiritual growth, visit www.gettingthru.org.
To
schedule an interview
with Phillip
Mountrose or order a review copy of any of his books,
call
805-489-9315 or phil@gettingthru.org.
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Help
Kids Beat Boredom this Summer
“There’s
nothing to do!”
“I’m bored!”
Those words are enough to give parent waves of
perspiration, especially in the heat of the summer. As kids have more time in
the summer, their cries of boredom can rise in both frequency and intensity.
So what to do? An obvious answer is to plan more
activities for children during summer vacation. But boredom is actually an
attitude problem, and it’s quite correctable.
“I’m bored” is a limiting belief, which is self-defeating and can
lead a child to make poor choices. The old phrase that idleness is the devil’s
playmate still holds much truth.
Help
your child find a positive belief, reflecting that he or she can do something
worthwhile. Through
listening, questioning, and occasional guiding, your child will find
alternatives. Also, help your child come to the conclusion for him- or herself.
Usually your child will conclude that boredom is not the only
choice—and also that he or she does not want to get into trouble from acting
out of boredom. “Boredom comes from a lack of involvement, so the antidote is
getting involved in a positive way,” says author of the Getting Thru to
Kids books and veteran educator Phillip Mountrose.
By using this problem-solving approach of helping kids find positive
beliefs, everyone will be greatly empowered.
And most of your children’s complaints will be put to rest. In the process,
life will become much less boring
and much more interesting.
Educator
and counselor, Phillip Mountrose is the author of Getting Thru to Kids: Problem Solving with Children Ages 6 to 18.
and Tips
and Tools for Getting Thru to Kids: 25 Great Ways to Communicate with Children
and Teenagers, (a Parents’ Choice Winner). He also co-wrote with his wife
Jane Getting Thru to Your Emotions with
EFT and Getting
Thru to Your Soul. There
are also video tapes that demonstrate the techniques presented in the books and
audio tapes.
The
books and tapes are available from www.gettingthru.org,
Amazon.com, or a 24-hour telephone ordering line at 800-431-1579. Books only are
also available at your local bookstore. For more information on EFT, family
resources and personal and spiritual growth, visit www.gettingthru.org.
To schedule an interview with Phillip or
order a review copy of any of his materials, call 805-489-9315
or e-mail phil@gettingthru.org.
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contact Phillip Mountrose:
Phone:
805.473.0732
Write: Holistic Communications, PO Box 279, Arroyo Grande, CA 93421
E-mail: phil@gettingthru.org
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