Customer Reviews
Makes a lot of sense - By: Semioticghost, 09 Aug 2006 
Adele Faber's "How to Talk So Kids Can Learn: At Home &in School" was something I picked it up for a casual browse & ended up reading it from cover to cover, because it's well written, illustrated with plenty of case histories & makes a lot of sense. It's also uproariously funnyin places!
Note that I'm not speaking as a parent or teacher, but it sounded pretty good from a third party's point of view.
Interesting & eminently readable.
Every Teacher Should Read This Book! - By: , 07 Sep 1998 One of the best books around to help teachers communicate better with children. Even though I bought this to help my teaching, I don't know how I would have made it through the last few years with my three young children without this book. The skills presentedin this very readable book are very useful for improving classroom management too & helping children that live with a lot of stress especiallyin the urban environment. The clear & compelling anecdotes bring Faber & Mazlich's ideas to life!
Every teacher, experienced and new, needs this book! - By: , 26 Jun 1998 After a frustrating first year of teaching at a junior high school, I was about ready to give up the teaching career all together. I picked up this book one evening because I liked the cartoon drawingsin it (it looked like it would be fun to read). I couldn't put it down. I learned so many things that I cannot wait to use my second year of teaching. I especially appreciated the chapter on praising children. I never realized what a negative impact that too "straight-forward" praise (such as "You're so smart!") could have on a student. Now I look back when I was a kid, & I hated it when people would constantly say that to me, because I always felt like, "okay, i'm smart....so what?" I thought I wouldn't be allowed to make a mistake. Those types of teachers that would say things like, "oh, don't worry about that assignment/paper/project...you are smart..you can do it," well, that didn't make me feel any better. The best teachers I had were the ones that gave me specific examples of things that I was doing rightin class.
