Allie provides tips and resources to encouraging appropriate listening skills for your kids.

- Modeling from parents/caregivers

- Connect before correct

- Focus on what you can and cannot control about the situation

- Collaborate and problem solve with your child together

- Give them choices

- Be playful!

Book recommendations: 

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk Paperback

by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 Paperback

by Joanna Faber  and  Julie King 

No Drama Discipline 

by Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson