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November API Reads

We are now reading Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish for the general audience. For the older children genre we are still reading Parent Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordon.

For Siblings Without Rivalry, we will be reading chapters 1-3 in November. The topics for these chapters will be:

  • How This Book Came to Be
  • Author’s Note
  • Chapter 1: Brothers and Sisters -- Past and Present
  • Chapter 2: Not Til the Bad Feelings Come Out…
  • Chapter 3: The Perils of Comparisons

For Parent Effectiveness Training, we’ll be reading Chapters 10-12. The topics for these chapters will be on:

  • Chapter 10: Parental Power - Necessary or Justified?
  • Chapter 11: The “No-Lose” Method for Resolving Conflicts
  • Chapter 12: Parents’ Fears and Concerns About the “No-Lose” Method

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