Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges offers readers what no other parenting book does: a practical understanding of children’s emotions and their upset moments, and effective tools for easing the most challenging interactions they face each day. Listen shows parents how to build meaningful, relationships that last a lifetime. Five surprising things parents will learn: •\tYou don’t have to reward or punish willful children to get them to cooperate. •\tAggressive kids are frightened kids, and there are simple tools to ease their fear so they don’t need to lash out. •\tYour willingness to just listen to crying or tantrums often is enough to heal a child’s fears and hurts. •\tSafe play during which your kid becomes the boss can reveal his hidden feelings— and heal them too. •\tParents who regularly listen to one another’s struggles, without judging or advising, often clear so much toxic emotion that their children benefit greatly. Listen introduces parents to five simple, practical skills even the most harried parent can use. These tools will help parents strengthen their connection with their child and help build their child’s intelligence, cooperation, and ability to learn as they grow. The book delivers detailed information accompanied by more than one hundred real-life stories from parents who’ve used this approach to address the root causes of their child’s difficult behaviors. The approach is borne out by the latest research in the fields of neuroscience and psychology, and by tens of thousands of interactions with children and their parents on five continents. Listen is divided into four sections: I. A New Perspective on Parenting II. Your Parenting Toolbox III. Solutions to Everyday Challenges IV. The Way Forward for Parents