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Summary: A reader-friendly, how-to book on communicating with kids
Review: "Zip Your Lips" is truly a parents' guide to brief and effective communication. Bravo! What a well needed book. This book is certainly reader-friendly. The text describes difficult situations and follows with a positive approach and effective answers. An easy to read, concise book, this is a must for anyone who has or works with children. It offers helpful suggestions in creating a happy and healthy environment for children and adults alike. As a parent, teacher, and Early Childhood Director, with "Parent 'N Tot" classes, Extended Day classes and a full nursery school, I highly recommend this text to all parents.
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Summary: Physician, Heal Thyself!
Review: Dale M. Jacobs may have written nice book but he was not a nice therapist himself! He not communicate right with children himself! This book written by hot air balloon! Get real!
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Summary: Get Real!
Review: Dale M. Jacobs may have written nice book but he was not a nice therapist himself! He not communicate right with children himself! This book written by hot air balloon! Get real!
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Summary: Valuable communication tools,even if you don't have children
Review: Even though I do not personally have children I am around them constantly as an aunt, friend and through community involvement. I found the suggestions and expamples very useful. I also realized that these same tools could be used to communicate with anyone. In addition, having a 92 year old grandmother, I realized that these same methods could apply with Seniors who have some senile dementia or related problems. We tend to talk too much and over explain. The book is short, easy to read and to the point. As the authors state, most people, especially parents do not have time to sit down and read many of the child raising books out there. This is well worth the time you invest.
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Summary: Physician, Heal Thyself!
Review: I am in shock to find that Dale M. Jacobs, of all people, has written a book about communicating with children. As a child I was "counseled" by Dale M. Jacobs. His idea of "counseling" was to berate children until we agreed with his proclamations, whether he was right or wrong or not! Mostly he was farther off-base than the Branch Davidians. Having Dale M. Jacobs write a book about communicating with children makes about as much sense as having Dr. Josef Mengele write a book about the care and feeding of twins! Save your money, folks - and "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" ...
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Summary: Wonderful book by Wonderful People
Review: I have personally known the Jacobses for almost six years, and have found their support to be invaluable in helping me. Their advice can be useful for everyone wishing to communicate with children. They are wonderful people who truly care about their patients! I urge everyone to support them by reading this book.
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Summary: This book has zipped my lips...
Review: I read this book and saw both my wife and myself in the book, and reserved expressing my opinion until my wife read the book. Well, three months later she did after an argument with our almost 11-year old daughter. I said to my wife, please read "Zip Your Lips;" she called me a couple of hours later and thanked me over and over for forcing her to read the book. I found the book to provide some great suggestions, while at the same time, reassuring myself that my often "passive" disciplinary techniques are reinforced by professional thought.
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Summary: Every parent should read this book
Review: This book is a fantastic resource for parents, full of good advice presented in a convincing and humorous way. As a pastor, I am ordering copies for each family in our Sunday School and plan to present one to each set of expecting parents.
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Summary: Every parent should read this book
Review: This book is a fantastic resource for parents, full of good advice presented in a convincing and humorous way. As a pastor, I am ordering copies for each family in our Sunday School and plan to present one to each set of expecting parents.
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Summary: A clear, concise and charming kid-rearing manual
Review: This book takes as its central premise an idea that sounds so simple and makes so much sense that it's amazing it hasn't been said before: if you want your children to respect you and heed your words, don't hector them with idle threats and don't use many words where few will do. A mother tells her daughter to pick up her socks. The daughter ignores her. The mother asks again. And again and again, eventually giving up and picking the socks up herself. If this scenario sounds familiar, you need Zip Your Lip, which offers concrete, plain-language strategies for bridging the communication gaps that inevitably make themselves known to parents with teen-agers. It's simple economics, really -- the less you say, the more valuable each word. And the proof that the technique is effective lies in the real-life examples that pepper the book, many from the authors' combined 50 years of treating children (and their parents), as psychiatrist and social worker. For the sake of full disclosure, the authors of this book are my aunt and uncle. But that doesn't obscure the fact that this book belongs on the shelf of anyone seeking to communicate more effectively and meaningfully. With their children, with their parents -- really, with anyone.
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