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Adele Faber

Nascido: January 12, 1928 – Bronx, New York, United States

Adele Faber is an American author and educator best known for co-authoring influential parenting and communication guides with Elaine Mazlish, including How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk and Siblings Without Rivalry. Her work on parent-child communication has been widely taught and translated internationally.

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Adele Faber was an American author and educator whose work helped redefine how adults speak to children. Born in the Bronx in 1928, she grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and developed an early attachment to books; according to her family’s obituary, her father teasingly called her “The Book” because he so often found her absorbed in reading. She studied theater and drama at Queens College, earned a master’s degree in education from New York University, and taught New York City high school students for eight years. Those experiences gave her an unusual blend of classroom realism, literary sensitivity, and stagecraft. A major turning point came when she and Elaine Mazlish studied with child psychologist Haim Ginott and later taught at The New School for Social Research and at Long Island University’s Family Life Institute, where they began translating child-development ideas into language parents and teachers could use in ordinary life. ((https://howtotalkworkshops.com/about-the-authors/))

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But the language of empathy does not come naturally to us
-How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
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We each felt what we felt
-How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
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Questions like these cause children to shut down rather than open up
-How To Talk So Kids Can Learn
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Beware the word but
-How To Talk So Kids Can Learn
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The problem is your teacher insists that everyone get more practice
-Adele Faber on "I hate homework!"
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Children, like most grownups, object to orders and commands
-Adele Faber on "You're not the boss of me!"
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What they need to know is that they’re loved uniquely for their own special, separate selves
-Adele Faber: When your child says, "Who do you love the most?"
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If you’re lucky enough to get a good coach, that could be something special
-You have a financial advisor and a physical trainer, so why not a parenting coach?

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"Adele Faber gently guided millions of readers through the vicissitudes of parenthood"

The Washington Post

"Adele Faber's classic was dubbed the parenting bible"

The Boston Globe

"Adele Faber's approach is practical, sensible, lucid, and startlingly logical"

Family Journal

"Adele Faber helps parents make children more receptive to learning"

Library Journal

"Adele Faber wrote child-rearing bestsellers that became bibles for generations of parents"

Shelf Awareness

"Adele Faber's parenting book actually made me a better parent"

Lydia Kiesling

"Adele Faber's work is exceptional, not simply just another how-to book"

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish are doing for parenting what Dr. Spock did for our generation"

Parent Magazine

"Adele Faber's work will bring more cooperation from children than all the yelling and pleading in the world"

The Christian Science Monitor

"Adele Faber offers excellent strategies for bringing out the best in schoolchildren"

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