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Taking "No" for an Answer and Other Skills Children Need: Fifty Games to Teach Family Skills | 
 enlarge | Authors: Laurie Simons, Laurie Simon
Creator: Dave Garbot
Publisher: Parenting Press
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 454006
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 111
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 1884734448
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.1
EAN: 9781884734441
ASIN: 1884734448
Publication Date: April 2000
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Product Description
Healthy families need twelve basic skills to prevent or to stop common family problems. The author developed these games to help parents and children have fun while learning to deal with negative family behavior. The problems fall away as the old habits of interaction are changed through the games. Children learn to get along by practicing common situations within their families. When they grow up to be parents, they use what they learned in their family of origin. In this way, new, more effective skills can be passed on to the next generation.
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 Fun ways to build developmental skills July 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
 Not for my older children or elementary age March 10, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this hoping to use it at home with my third grader, and then thinking I could take it to school to use with some of the elementary students I work with as a school counselor. I was disappointed in the description not matching my needs/expectations. I feel it is for families or preschools to use with preschool age children. The games would fall flat with my family and a lot of the kids I work with for being too young/immature.
Offers a unique and effective approach February 16, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 February 9, 2001
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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