Colleen Thompson LMFT
Therapist, Parent Coach and Author
COUSINS LISTENING ADVENTURES IN THE WILDERNESS
Teaching kids FIRST TIME LISTENING Skills for Survival
How do you get kids to listen the FIRST TIME you ask them to do something ? In the wilderness this is an essential skill for survival for children and animals alike.
Getting kids to listen the first time is one of the most frustrating and common parenting struggles. Children will come to understand the importance of FIRST TIME LISTENING for survival in the wilderness with wild animals as well as applying these listening skills to their own lives. Whether you are a parent, a teacher or caregiver who wishes to be more responsive, assertive and calm in asking a child to listen the first time you ask them to do something, this book offers great ideas of how to build listening skills and earn respect from children so they will WANT to listen.
Coming Books
COUSINS ANIMAL TRAINING: GENTLE AS POSSIBLE, FIRM AS NECESSARY.
Learning about how Rules Without A Relationship = Disconnection and Disobedience.
Have you ever looked deep into the eyes of an animal and felt entirely known? Often, the connections we share with non-human animals represent our safest and most reliable relationships. They can offer unique teaching opportunities for us to put our relationship ahead of enforcing rules in parenting relationships.
COUSINS FAMILY CAMP ADVENTURES
Learning how Family Meetings can be fun and restorative.
Children learn so much during family meetings: Listening skills, respecting differences, verbalizing appreciation, problem-solving, focusing on solutions and how their families can have fun together