Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Parenting: advice & issues

FAMILY WHISPERING

Melinda Blau Tracy Hogg

The Baby Whisperer's Commonsense Strategies for Communicating and Connecting with the People You Love and Making Your Whole Family Stronger

The long awaited Baby Whisperer’s guide to building a strong and loving family: As Tracy Hogg put it, “Parenting is something you do. Family is something you are.” But how can we make our families work better?

Before her untimely death in 2004, Hogg—a.k.a. the Baby Whisperer—and her longtime coauthor, journalist Melinda Blau, conceived a fourth book that took the commonsense principles that made the Baby Whispering books such a sensation and applied them to the whole family. Family Whispering enables readers to see everyday challenges, from sibling rivalry to time management, with fresh eyes. Informed by a wealth of new research and stories of real families, this book is filled with the handy tips and memorable acronyms that Baby Whisperer fans have come to expect. Blau uses the Baby Whisperer philosophy to illuminate how the multiple bonds and interactions that unfold within a household of adults and children coalesce to form a larger family dynamic. Featuring quizzes, checklists, and worksheets that help boil down big-picture concepts to day-to-day actions, the book presents invaluable advice that is simple, clear, practical, and often counterintuitive (asking kids to help more around the home can make them happier, for instance, while family setbacks can often make a family closer). What emerges is a hopeful, practical plan for designing families that are happier and more productive.
Melinda Blau is an award-winning journalist who has written fifteen books and more than 100 magazine articles. Since 2000, when she began collaborating with the late Tracy Hogg, Blau has been the “voice” of the bestselling Baby Whisperer books. Tracy Hogg devoted her twenty-five-year career to helping parents understand and communicate with their babies and young children. A nurse, lactation educator, and newborn consultant, Hogg’s sensible and compassionate philosophy, now translated into more than twenty languages, is known throughout the world.

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Book Published 2014-02-18
Book Published 2014-02-18

Comments

Systems theory teach us that one individual has the power to affect a larger group. Give that individual a book like Family Whispering, and he or she will have the knowledge and the tools to positively change and impact the most basic and important group of all: the family. Thanks to Melinda and Tracy for helping to make the world a better place--one parent, one child, and now one family at a time.

While the time of traditional families is long past, we’ve never felt a greater desire for practical advice on boosting happier, healthier relationships between all family members. That’s why this book is destined to be the most-consulted and comforting guide for children and adults to get along better–in whatever kind of modern family arrangement they have.

Our first and most important relationships are formed in our families. Melinda Blau encourages us to have an expansive perspective, showing child-obsessed parents how to become more family-focused and to empower their kids to form loving, resilient connections. Healthy families are the best defense against the anxieties of our modern world.

Melinda Blau brilliantly translates research on family relationships into clear, easy to read prose. She asks intriguing questions and tells colorful stories that get at the heart of what makes families work. This book is a gem–it's one that people will read and refer to over and over again.

ust when I thought we didn’t need another book on making families work, I came upon this one! Filled with down home wisdom, and terrific advice, it’s the book to reach for when you’re asking the question, But what do I do?