You can work on these sections independently, in book studies, in professional learning communities PLCs , in mentor sessions, and in professional development sessions. The main book, Dealing with Difficult Parents, 2nd Edition, shows how your teachers and other educators can communicate with parents more effectively.
Score: 4. Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time? Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined?
Is hostile, negative and critical? Coping with these traits in parents is an endless high-stress battle for their children. Though there's no medical defination for "difficult" parents, you know when you have one. While it's rare for adults to change their ways late in life, you can stop the vicious merry-go-round of anger, blame, guilt and frustration.
For the first time, here's a common-sense guide from professionals, with more than two decades in the field, on how to smooth communications with a challenging parent. Filled with practical tips for handling contentious behaviors and sample dialogues for some of the most troubling situations, this book addresses many hard issues, including: How to tell your parent he or she cannot live with you.
How to avoid the cycle of nagging and recriminations How to prevent your parent's negativity from overwhelming you. How to deal with an impaired parent who refuses to stop driving. How to asses the risk factors in deciding whether a parent is still able to live alone. Emphasizing ways to help create constructive conversation, this revised edition of How to Handle Difficult Parents is a must-have for teachers everywhere, both those just beginning and those already deep in the trenches.
The majority of parents are supportive, helpful and realistic. However, there are a few that can be unreasonable, demanding and even threatening towards teachers.
No single strategy will work for all situations. Dealing With Difficult Parents will provide you with and array of strategies that will prove successful a great deal of the time.
It will help you to understand what motivates the difficult parent and to discover the keys to finding common ground. This book will provide the skills to disarm parents' emotionally charged behavior, while controlling your own emotions. The main book,Dealing with Difficult Parents, 2ndEdition, shows how your teachers and other educators can communicate with parents more effectively. With this new supplement, you'll learn how you, as a leader, can--and must--support and coach teachers along the way.
Topics covered include how to Make sure your teachers understand the families they're dealing with; Help your teachers communicate effectively with parents by being positive and proactive, so problems don't escalate to the main office; Establish expectations for dealing with parents, so teachers understand how to be appropriate even when a parent is not; Ensure your teachers feel supported by you when they're dealing with difficult parents; and Help teachers become more confident and empowered in challenging situations.
With these practical books, you'll be able to get parents on your side so they can become a positive force in your school's success.
This book is for people who want to build a more adult relationship with their parents. Many people feel like children again when talking to their parents, and the authors offer advice to help deal with such problems.
This book helps teachers, principals, superintendents, and all educators develop a repertoire of tools and skills for comfortable and effective interaction with parents.
It shows you how to deal with the parent who is bossy, volatile, argumentative, aggressive, or maybe the worst - apathetic. It provides specific phrases to use with parents to help you avoid using "trigger" words which unintentionally make matters worse.
It will show you how to deliver bad news to good parents, how to build positive credibility to all types of parents, and how to foster the kind of parent involvement which leads to student success.
Whether you're a teacher regular or special education or a coach, this book will give you practical suggestions regarding what to say and how to say it to parents who question your lesson plans, challenge your disciplinary decisions, or threaten to tell the principal on you.
Bringing years of experience as a teacher, principal, superintendent, and professor, the author shows teachers how to handle the most difficult parent types, including the Helicopter Mom, the Caped Crusader, Ms.
Emphasizing ways to help create constructive conversation, the revised edition of "How to Handle Difficult Parents" is a must-have for teachers everywhere, both those just beginning and those already deep in the trenches. This Study Guide provides a variety of thought-provoking questions and activities to help you implement the concepts in the bestselling book, Dealing with Difficult Parents, 2nd Edition.
For each chapter of the book, the Study Guide offers discussion questions, journal prompts, and group activities. You can work on these sections independently, in book studies, in professional learning communities PLCs , in mentor sessions, and in professional development sessions. This new supplement to the bestselling Dealing with Difficult Parents, 2nd Edition is designed to help you with the specific challenges you face as a school leader when dealing with parents.
The main book, Dealing with Difficult Parents, 2nd Edition, shows how your teachers and other educators can communicate with parents more effectively. Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time? Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined? Is hostile, negative and critical? Coping with these traits in parents is an endless high-stress battle for their children. Though there's no medical defination for "difficult" parents, you know when you have one.
While it's rare for adults to change their ways late in life, you can stop the vicious merry-go-round of anger, blame, guilt and frustration.
For the first time, here's a common-sense guide from professionals, with more than two decades in the field, on how to smooth communications with a challenging parent. Filled with practical tips for handling contentious behaviors and sample dialogues for some of the most troubling situations, this book addresses many hard issues, including: How to tell your parent he or she cannot live with you.
How to avoid the cycle of nagging and recriminations How to prevent your parent's negativity from overwhelming you.
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