Welcome and congratulations for purchasing "How To Get Your Kids To Listen: 7 Proven Tools Recommended By Parenting Experts."

About two years ago, I interviewed 25 parenting experts from around the world - leading child psychologists, best-selling parenting authors, ex-school teachers, nanny's, and parenting coaches - to get their best advice for getting young kids to cooperate.

Then me and my husband tested this advice and techniques on our own kids, and we shared these techniques with hundreds of other parents and caretakers.

That's why I can confidently say that the parenting techniques you'll learn in this course are the best techniques that for getting better cooperation from your kids...without needing to nag, threaten, shout, or get angry.

In fact, these techniques will not only make it easier to get your kids to cooperate, but they'll also help you build a strong relationship and connection with your kids, and even make parenting more fun and joyful.

Imagine if you knew what to say and do to get your kids to cooperate with you...without having to get mad, shout at them, or use threats or nagging. Imagine how great parenting could be if you knew how to turn these stressful moments into opportunities for fun and joy - turning struggles into opportunities for positive connection building.

That's what these parenting techniques will help you accomplish.

We designed this course to be simple and easy to use. We really want you to actually try out these tools and techniques and see the improvements from using them.

That's why I don't recommend you read through everything on this page all at once. Instead, I will be sending you a daily email for the next 14 days. Every technique gets 2 emails, and each email will share a simple case-study or example of how you can use the technique, and also a few actions that you can take to start using the technique.

The get the most value from this course, simply read each email (a few minutes) and then do the actions (about 10 to 15 minutes).

Then, use this page as a reference if you need a reminder about any specific technique, or if you just want to listen to a specific interview again.

Any question? Simply reply to any of the emails I send you, or send me an email at [email protected]

Playfulness is one of the easiest, and fun, ways to get kids to cooperate and listen to you.

That's because playing with your child strengthens your connection with them. And when you have a strong connection with your child, they trust you, and they are much more likely to cooperate with you.

Focusing on building a strong connection with your child builds a strong sense of security in them, where they look up to you in a noble way, and want to be like you and emulate you. You become a role model they want to be like, instead of a figure to be feared.

And when you put connection first, you can go to bed at night knowing you supported your child, and not feel ashamed because you yelled at them. You feel better about yourself when you stay engaged and connected to your child.

Kids love to play. That’s sort of their language, right? That’s what they want to do and that’s how they learn.

If you have a child who’s engaged in some activity and you need them to stop, and to do what you need them to do, you have to understand that they don’t have a lot of motivation and they don’t yet have a lot of inner control.

They don’t have a lot of self-discipline to say, “Well, I really want to be playing, but I really should stop because it’s time for us to go and my mother is telling me I need to get my shoes on. I really should do that.” They’re focused on what they’re interested in and what they’re doing.

If we can get them focused on another activity that to them feels like play, then we don’t develop that resistance where they start to dysregulate and cry and scream and say, “No, and you can’t make me!”

Julie King, co-author of two best-selling books: “How To Talk So LITTLE Kids Will Listen” and “How To Talk When Kids Won’t Listen”

Golden Time is a technique that you can use to connect with your kids, and proactively meet their needs for attention and control.

It is a way of spending special time with your child that helps them feel loved, gives them attention, and helps them feel in control.

What makes this technique different than just spending time with your kids is that you follow certain steps to make it a special occasion, to create a daily ritual that not only brings you closer to each other, but also helps meet your child’s emotional needs for power and attention. Doing this regularly will proactively reduce negative behaviors and make getting your child to cooperate much easier.

There’s so many things we already do, and we really want to think about small little changes and tools adding up to those really big results that we’re looking for. And ultimately the place that we’re working to help parents get to and achieve is a place where we really encourage listening and cooperation without force.

Trying to force our kids to cooperate, with yelling and timeouts and empty threats, often ends up backfiring, and we don’t really get the results we want. But when we start using tools, for example, like “Golden Time”, that I’m going to share with you, we start to see that we meet our children’s needs proactively.

Tia Slightham - best-selling author and founder of “Tia Slightham - Parenting Solutions”

"Curious Waiting" is a simple, two-step technique to create deeper connections with your child while setting the foundation for easier cooperation, deeper understanding, and stronger relationships.

Using this technique is a great way to get your child to open up and share things from their life with you. When you show them that you are curious about what they are interested in, they start feeling like you are on their side and interested in helping them.

... it works for any type of cooperation because what we want to consider is that really, cooperation comes out of a child feeling connected to you and feeling as if you’re on their side and you’re interested in helping them meet their goals also.

Rebecca Rolland, author of The Art of Talking with Children, Harvard Graduate School lecturer and speech pathologist

The Detaching/"No Problem" technique I share on this page works especially great for avoiding unnecessary power struggles and stress, and it helps to develop your child's own sense of responsibility. It gives you an alternative to yelling, and greatly increases the chances that your kids will actually do what they need to do.

We find as parents, a lot of times, we’ll get frustrated, and we’ll end up yelling. Well, our kids are not listening when we’re yelling. But if we’re smiling, and if we’re detached from the outcomes, then they listen more carefully, and they respond in more positive ways. Dr. Paul Jenkins

Me and my husband both use the "No Problem" technique very often with our kids, especially in the mornings when they don't want to get ready.

The "One Minute Miracle" technique is a simple set of steps that you can do to make transitions easier - things like getting your kids to come eat dinner while they are playing or watching TV.

Instead of just shouting at your kids to do something, you take one minute to make it much more likely that they will cooperate with you without needing yelling or threats.

The Take the Pressure Off technique is a powerful but simple approach to get better cooperation from your child—without resorting to frustration, yelling, or power struggles.

In this section, I'll explain this technique, how to implement it, and ways to build a deeper connection with your child while teaching emotional regulation.

When kids can anticipate what to expect - what the expectations are for a specific situation - then they become much more cooperative.

That's because kids thrive on predictability.

When they have predictability in their lives, it creates a sense of safety and security in them, meaning they are much more likely to listen to you when you ask them to do something instead of getting into a power struggle with you.

You can always contact me on [email protected] if you have any questions or issues.

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So, first check your Spam folder to see if there are any emails from [email protected]

Then, add me as a contact in your email system to ensure that my emails end up in your inbox.

Gmail

1. Open Gmail and log in to your account.

2. Open an email from [email protected].

3. Hover over the sender's name or email address at the top of the email.

4. In the pop-up that appears, click “Add to Contacts.” Gmail will automatically save the address to your contacts.

Outlook/Hotmail

1. Sign in to your Outlook/Hotmail account .

2. Open an email from [email protected]

3. Click on the sender’s name.

4. A contact card will appear. Click “Add” or “Add to contacts” .

5. Fill in any additional information if desired, then click “Save” .

Yahoo Mail

1. Log in to your Yahoo Mail account .

2. Go to an email from [email protected]

3. Click on the sender's email address.

4. A pop-up window will appear. Select “Add to contacts” .

5. Add any additional information you'd like and click “Save” .

Apple Mail (iCloud)

1. Sign into iCloud Mail .

2. Open an email from [email protected]

3. Click on the email address.

4. Select “Add to Contacts” in the pop-up window. This option will appear near the sender's email.

5. You can fill in additional details if needed and click “Done” .

AOL Mail

1. Login to your AOL Mail account .

2. Open an email from [email protected]

3. Hover over the sender’s name or click it to open the contact options.

4. Click “Add Contact” .

5. Enter any additional information and save the contact.

Generic Steps for Other Email Clients

1. Open an email from [email protected]

2. Click on or hover over the email address.

3. Look for an option that says “Add to Contacts” , “Add to Address Book” , or something similar.

4. Save the contact by following any additional prompts.