"How To Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk
Book Club & Discussion Group."

HOW TO TALK SO TEENS WILL LISTEN & LISTEN SO TEENS WILL TALK
BY ADELE FABER & ELAINE MAZLISH. Illustrations by Kimberly Ann Coe.
NEW YORK: HARPER 2005 EDITION HARDCOVER, 2006 Paperback Edition

(YELLOW, RED, WHITE, BLUE BOOK COVER)

Audible Audiobook Narrators: Heather Alicia Simms, Michele Pawk, Candice Thaxton, January
LaVoy, Rebekkah Ross, Gibson Frazier, Molly Pope.

We will listen to the Audiobook/CD. We will discuss the topics presented in the chapter.
Book club participants are encouraged to buy or borrow a copy of the book to read
along and to highlight or underline the important pearls of wisdom shared in the book.
You may click on the link to be connected to the site at Amazon if you would like to buy
the book:

How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk: Faber, Adele, Mazlish,
Elaine: 9780060741266: Amazon.com: Books

After completing the course you may request our google doc file name to upload a
story, poem, illustration or drawing about your experience with the pearls of wisdom
discussed in the book, the book club, or when communicating effectively with your
teens. With your signed consent your submission may be used in a compilation of
heartwarming parenting stories that I will be collecting for publishing through Archway
Publishers a Division Of Simon and Schuster.

Please jot down your ideas and observations that you may have about changes in your
communication patterns with children as a result of practicing the pearls of wisdom
shared in this book club while taking this class.

If we have time at the end of the class participants may read poems, insights or
reflections they wrote about this book or class out-loud to the other members in our
zoom class.

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This is a combination Club, Writing Club, Discussion Group all in one class!
Participants may invite a member of their household, spouse, family, friend, or co-worker to
participate in the course at no additional fee or charge when sharing your computer screen /
device together.

Please login to all our online zoom classes 15-20 minutes early for a meet & greet and for login
troubleshooting.

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The 8 Weekly 2 hour Class Session Topics:

Page Designations are reflective of the 2006 paperback edition.

Ch. 1. Introduction, Dealing With Feelings....................................Pages 01 - 32

Ch. 2. We’re Still “ Making Sure”.....................................................Pages 33 - 66

Ch. 3. To Punish or Not To Punish...................................................Pages 67 - 90

Ch. 4. Working It Out Together........................................................Pages 91 - 114

Ch. 5. Meeting The Kids // About Feelings, Friends and Family.*Pages 115 - 138

Ch. 6. Parents and Teens Together..................................................Pages 139- 164

Ch. 7. Dealing With Sex & Drugs.......................................................Pages 165 -196

8. Review of the pearls of wisdom shared in this book How To Talk So Teens Will
Listen by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish and by our Book club, writing club, discussion
group classmates!