Book Nook: Listen - Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges

I recently had a chance to review Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges. The title pretty much says it all - listen. Listening can make a big difference in our relationships with our kids and in our household management. But we often overlook this step, or it ends up being harder than it sounds.

The book introduces five strategies that are flexible enough to work in just about every parenting challenge, and memorable enough to be practical to use. The rationale behind the tools is clearly explained, and the book is written in a friendly, helpful tone that is easy to read but also powerful for parents.

Read Listen Today and You Will Change Your Parenting Forever from Hand in Hand on Vimeo.


Author Patty Wipfler has two grown sons and lives in Palo Alto, California. During her 40 years of work with parents and children she has developed a simple but powerful parenting approach that promotes optimal child development. She founded the non-profit Hand in Hand Parenting in 1989. Since then, more than 800,000 copies of her Listening to Children booklets have been sold in English, Spanish, and 10 other languages. The book can be purchased at your local independent bookstore, from Hand in Hand in Parenting at http://www.handinhandparenting.org or on Amazon.com.

Patty’s co-author, Tosha Schore, M.A, is a coach, author, educator, and speaker. She is the mother of three boys, and an advocate for boys and their families worldwide.