Dennis E. Coates Libri

Looking beyond high school can be as scary for you as for your child. Your goal has been to raise a happy, successful, independent adult, and along the way you’ve come across many helpful ideas—probably more than you can remember and put into practice.During the past 10 years, Dr. Coates has published several hundred articles for parents. The goal for this book has been to select the “best of the best” of these, revise and update them, and share what he believes are the 50 most empowering insights for parents. The collected articles are written in his clear, compassionate style, and each of the chapters is headlined with an actionable insight.

How can you guide your child if they discount what you say?What if your child fights you about something you find unacceptable?Is your relationship with your child eroding? What can you do?Connect with Your Kid is an unprecedented, practical step-by-step skill-building guide for improving the 10 most important parent-child communication Eliminate arguments and resolve conflicts. Build respect and trust. Grow the bond. All this is possible when you connect with effective communication.

You don't need to be intimidated by the idea of being somebody's coach. Yes, many people make coaching their profession: executive coaches, business coaches, parent coaches, life coaches, athletic coaches, trainers, counselors, consultants, therapists, and others. For sure, they've had plenty of education and training to prepare them for these careers. But the idea that people can coach each other while they're trying to be more effective is not revolutionary. For example, experienced school teachers have always done this to help others who are new to the profession. And moms have been getting together to share their know-how with each other for, well, forever. Today, we call this helping activity "peer coaching." Coaching someone who is working to improve a skill is more like being a friend or a mentor. You do it because you care about someone else's success. Very likely the person who needs your help is someone you know well, such as a friend or a coworker. The purpose of this book is to give you a few ideas to make your coaching interactions more effective.

If you're the parent of a teen, you want your child to: Avoid errors in judgment and thrive during adolescence Prepare for the tough challenges that await beyond high school Grow the brainpower to succeed in a demanding career > As a parent, you don't have to leave this to chance. There's a lot you can do. Dr. Coates explains in easy-to-understand language how teens can consciously and deliberately build a solid foundation of critical thinking skills that will last a lifetime. You'll learn how to stimulate, encourage, support and protect your teen's brain growth during adolescence-the sensitive window of prefrontal cortex (PFC) development. You'll also learn about: The amazing power of the PFC How your child can deliberately develop their PFC Why this basic development has to happen during adolescence How to stimulate your teen to develop thinking skills How to help your teen protect their growing PFC School courses, extracurricular activities, and games that help grow a smarter brain 1. Read the book. 2. Give it to your child. 3.Talk about it together.

You don't need to be intimidated by the idea of being somebody's parent coach. Yes, many people make parent coaching their profession. For sure, they've had plenty of education and training to prepare them for these careers. But the idea that parents can coach each other while they're trying to be more effective parents is not revolutionary. For example, moms have been getting together to share their know-how with each other for, well, forever. Today, we call this helping activity "parent coaching." Coaching someone who is working to improve a parenting skill is more like being a friend or a mentor. You do it because you care about someone else's success. Very likely the person who needs your help is someone you know well. The purpose of this book is to give you a few ideas to make your parent coaching interactions more effective.

Most people in the workplace learned basic communication habits not from formal instruction, but "on the street" with friends and family when they were young. And yet, strong leadership and cooperative team interaction depend on effective communication. To correct this classic problem, organizations spend billions of dollars every year on learning and development.To supplement these programs, Connect with Your Team is a coaching resource for the ten most important workplace communication skills. It combines the most useful insights of the past several decades, along with examples, tips, chapter summaries, and recommended reading. For the first time, the people who do the work have a deskside reference for improving their performance continuously over time.