What Did I Just Say!?! : How New Insights into Childhood Thinking Can Help You Communicate More Effectively with Your Child

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Summary: Change The Way You Communicate With Your Child
Review: "What Did I Just Say! " by Denis Donovan, M.D. and Deborah McIntyre, M.A., R.N. is a book on how to communicate effectively with your children. This is a must in this day of computer wiz kids. It gives you phrases and practical statements to say to your children to help them process what you really want them to do. Children don't always hear what we meant. This book will change the way you communicate and interact with your children. Pick this one up today and be on your way to a better, more insightful relationship with your kids.

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Summary: Change The Way You Communicate With Your Child
Review: "What Did I Just Say! " by Denis Donovan, M.D. and Deborah McIntyre, M.A., R.N. is a book on how to communicate effectively with your children. This is a must in this day of computer wiz kids. It gives you phrases and practical statements to say to your children to help them process what you really want them to do. Children don't always hear what we meant. This book will change the way you communicate and interact with your children. Pick this one up today and be on your way to a better, more insightful relationship with your kids.

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Summary: Easy read, quick feeling of hope!
Review: "What Did I Just Say" will give the reader hope early on. It is well written, easy to understand, and for once offers real. simple, and useable techniques for parents and teachers. In a time when character education is severly lacking at home and in schools, this gives parents and teachers tools and makes them aware. Donovan and McIntyre point out in a matter-of-fact way and with humor, that adults defeat themselves just in the way we say something to a child. Adult language becomes so automatic that we don't even hear what we say. When we start listening to ourselves we find that we are inviting debate with the child, and help them to avoid ownership of responsibility, honesty, and respect. We tend to take on the resposibility for our child's choices and carry the guilt. The insight in this book is basic and simple. The techniques are easy to understand, and best of all DO-able! I am seeing the results at home and in my classroom. "What Did I Just Say" is a gift. Get a highlighter, and some peace!

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Summary: Number 1 book on Parenting
Review: Dr. Spock and all the others have nothing on this team. For the first time after reading and implementing parenting methods I have finally found one that truly works. The changes in our family are remarkable. In a world full of self help books on parenting, it is very confusing as to what is right, wrong or simply ineffective. This book however is not only effective but will teach parents common sense things we just could not see on our own. It is simple and even obvious now. Wonderful parenting guide for any parent whether working through a crisis or just wanting to make sure you and your child start out in the right direction. Its never to late to make a change and its not only effective, the results are quick and rewarding. Our quaility of family life has surpassed my wildest dreams!! Frued has been surpassed. We recommend this book to all of our friends, and to anyone reading this review. You will be amazed and grateful. Thanks Denis and Deborah!

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Summary: Practical help for parents
Review: I am a therapist working with children and their parents in rural Oklahoma. Most of the children I work with have some sort of behavioral problem that brings them in for counseling. Any kind of realistic help that I can give the parents in dealing with these problems is greatly appreciated and more often than not the key factor in the success of the treatment. "What Did I Just Say!?!" is loaded with useful ideas and perspectives that can help parents get back in the driver's seat with their very challenging children.I used the book recently to supplement my 16 week parenting class. Even though the information came late in the course (when people were tired of learning new things) and was delivered in rather sloppy fashion (I had just gotten the book), the ideas were well received. One single-parent mother started using "the Five Minutes" and within four weeks swore by it. The Donovans are very thoughtful, caring professionals and it shows in their work. "What Did I Just Say!?!" is a valuable book for both parents and professionals who work with parents.

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Summary: Not your typical parenting advice
Review: If you want to understand how your child's mind really works, if you want to get past the blindfolds imposed by such labels as Attention Deficit Disorder, Hyperactivity, and Learning Disabled, if you want to be able to make rules and structure part of a meaningful relationship with your child and not just another source of arguments, read this book.

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Summary: What did I just say?
Review: This book has changed my life, it has given the spoken language new clarity from the eyes of the young. I now have control of how words are spoken, interperted and understood, before I always assumed my child understood what I meant. My children have responded very well to this easy to follow and understand guide. We have also been fortunate enough to be in therapy with Dr. Donovan for the past 1 1/2, as we live in St Petersburg, Fl. Read the book, absorb the book, implement the book and change your world and your childs.

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Summary: What did I just say?
Review: This book has changed my life, it has given the spoken language new clarity from the eyes of the young. I now have control of how words are spoken, interperted and understood, before I always assumed my child understood what I meant. My children have responded very well to this easy to follow and understand guide. We have also been fortunate enough to be in therapy with Dr. Donovan for the past 1 1/2, as we live in St Petersburg, Fl. Read the book, absorb the book, implement the book and change your world and your childs.

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Summary: GET IT and get spares for your friends, LOVE IT!
Review: This book is amazing. If you have problems with your boys (OK kids) you must get this. I thought I was the most emotionally available and "tuned-in" parent. After reading the first few chapters, I used the skills I leared in this book. My older one had been whining in the mornings about not wanting to go to school. I gently commanded him to tell me WHY (I didn't ASK, I COMMANDED him to tell me- lovingly)in the ways I learned in the book. He told me that he was embarassed because he couldn't open his tupperware at snacktime. I had the same morning scene EVERY MORNING until that day, and that was the end of it! I use this book EVERY DAY now. It is an easy read, and you will get results after just a few chapters. I had no parenting issues that I wanted to fix, but my sister had an appt. with the author without knowing he had a book (a Dr. referral, he's in Tampa, FL). I looked it up on Amazon and it was interesting. I got it and it's LOVE! GET IT, but be ready to take responsibility for your kids' problems and take initiative to change the way you speak to them. If you can, it'll be easy, SO EASY. If you are looking for an external reason for your kids' problems you can easily find that elsewhere.

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Summary: GET IT and get spares for your friends, LOVE IT!
Review: This book is amazing. If you have problems with your boys (OK kids) you must get this. I thought I was the most emotionally available and "tuned-in" parent. After reading the first few chapters, I used the skills I leared in this book. My older one had been whining in the mornings about not wanting to go to school. I gently commanded him to tell me WHY (I didn't ASK, I COMMANDED him to tell me- lovingly)in the ways I learned in the book. He told me that he was embarassed because he couldn't open his tupperware at snacktime. I had the same morning scene EVERY MORNING until that day, and that was the end of it! I use this book EVERY DAY now. It is an easy read, and you will get results after just a few chapters. I had no parenting issues that I wanted to fix, but my sister had an appt. with the author without knowing he had a book (a Dr. referral, he's in Tampa, FL). I looked it up on Amazon and it was interesting. I got it and it's LOVE! GET IT, but be ready to take responsibility for your kids' problems and take initiative to change the way you speak to them. If you can, it'll be easy, SO EASY. If you are looking for an external reason for your kids' problems you can easily find that elsewhere.