Taking No for an Answer and Other Skills Children Need: 50 Games to Teach Family Skills

by Laurie Simons, Laurie Simons M.A., Dave Garbot

Filled with more than 50 games designed to improve family relationships and social interactions, this book will help parents teach their children 12 basic skills--including listening, making appropriate requests, following directions, problem solving, and respecting boundaries--that will reduce sibling rivalries, eliminate whining and tantrums, stop interruptions, and decrease arguing, backtalk, and insults. The games are presented in an easy-to-follow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884734448
• ISBN13: 9781884734441
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Parenting Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Fun ways to build developmental skills

On the recommendation of our attachment therapist, I bought this book of games to use with my 11-year-old adopted daughter with reactive attachment disorder. The book focuses on 12 skills learned between the ages of 2 - 12 years and each set of skill building games builds on the previous skill. I was surprised at how much I learned simply from reading the introduction and the section introductions. We are still playing games in the first couple of sections, but they have been a BIG hit. My daughter has really enjoyed the games and asked to play them again. She has begun to use some of the skills too. They have been easy to integrate into daily life. Two things to note: 1) You will need to figure out where your kids are developmentally (not age) and where there are gaps in their skills. The book gives some ideas to help you figure it out. 2) A lot of the games work better with a family of at least three or four (I'm a single parent of one), so I am either adapting them or inviting others to play with us. The skills and sections: 1. Feeling safe and relaxed, trusting 2. Respecting boundaries 3. Making requests 4. Listening 5. Taking no for and answer 6. Following directions 7. Acknowledging others 8. Planning 9. Making and keeping agreements 10. Cooperating 11. Solving problems 12. Resolving conflicts

Offers a unique and effective approach

Taking "No" For An Answer And Other Skills Children Need isn't an ordinary "how to" book on parenting offering strategies for parental problem solving with their children. Rather it offers a unique and effective approach that doesn't require parents to wait until a problem presents itself to initiate an effective parental response. Certified mental health counselor and family specialist Laurie Simons has developed are presents fifty "family effective" games that parents can employ to help their children learn to comply with parental requests, solve their own problems, keep their agreements, take "no" for an answer, cooperate with family members, and acknowledge others. Taking "No" For An Answer And Other Skills Children Need is a highly recommended addition to personal, professional, and community library parental skills development reading lists and reference book collections.

Fifty quick and lively games and activities

Taking "No" For An Answer And Other Skills Children Need is a compendium of fifty quick and lively games and activities designed to bring peace and harmony to a family household. There are learning and behavioral games to help children learn how to comply with parental requests, take "no" for an answer, keep the agreements they make, solve their own problems, get along with siblings, and much, much more! If you only have time to read one "how to" book on parenting, make it Laurie Simon's Taking "No" For An Answer.