"How to talk so kdis will listenand listen so kids will talk" - anyone want to go trhough this book?

[Porcupine]

and see hwat we think of it?

Its wuite heavy reading( not intellectually) just very close set type and lots of americna egs
But i reckon we cna do it.

Stop it! This is the funniest thing ever and I can't stop laughing. I have tears running down my face and I can hear dh's car in the drive. What do I tell him when he walks in and I'm howling like a banshee and my eye make up is half way down my face?

Wicked witch?????

C'est Moi!

oh crap

have done this style of parenting for years

now realise i am wet and probably need supernanny

am fed up with acknowleging feelings of toddlers, its arduous and a winding cul de sac

guess you are feelign kinda lousy

floowed by " dont get fresh"

FJ this is only chapter one!!!
chapter tow tomorrow ight
am out all day tomorrow

unless NG finds her book

Loving that don't get fresh thing. Will try it out on random people.

and also, am i correct in saying that acc to the book all you see to say is "ah"?

And can I just say that I PMSL over cods juxtaposition I'll just gonad get book and beavers

[snurk]

lol must go and lok busy
dh on way home

see im not sure my kids need encouragement to talk

that put me off book a bit

what, it makes them talk MORE?

Cod was wondering if you type the way you talk?

I imagine that you do, you spot your friend in the gym and say 'arf! vi'e sjut bin wisming ithne farkin opplo, won mi gnoggin ot av he a ckiqu og on teh datre liml, ese ouy taler!

MB- PMSL at imagining you with a class of 15 year olds calling them 'farkin stoooooopid'

Also ROFL at the Gonads and the beavers

bfore the massed ranks of MN rise up with flaming torches to tar and feather me I wouldn't actually say that.

I will confess to thinking it on times.....not when they really can't do something , but rather when they can't be arsed to do something.

Yoo hoo! We're heeere!

So, how do you want to do this MB, a total tar coating with brushes, or shall we hurl the tar? The feathers ARE freerange organic duck and goose.

Shall we make a start?

Before you do can I give you an example

The A level student who told me he didn't know how to divide by 10??????!!!!!!!

Ladies, I rest my case!

God what an excellent thread. I can see that you are feeling frustrated by your pupils' behaviour mb. How does it make you feel?

I especially like the title of cod's new book.

FARKING ANGRY

Rather as I did when another sixth form student (and remember this actually year 12) told me that the sun was alive!

[cries weakly emoticon needed]

The correct response, clearly would have been "that's right, so it is!! And so are the stars!!"

Lol at farking angry

'wouldn't it be interesting if they were' [simpers]

Boco - you made me larf!!

Have just nearly choked on tea reading about the Yr 12 boy who said the sun was alive
Thanks for reviving the joys of HTTSKWL cod, I am getting a lovely warm flashback to working through this brilliant book.
I think its cheap and nasty presentation with no pictures of norks or Miriam Stoppared make it curiously appealing to men. It's the only parenting book my dh has ever read too cristina.
Although as mine doesn't want both wrists broken he has never gotten fresh with me about it krabbie

So, is that the discussion over then?
Can we have a proper serious one now about Toxic Childhood by Sue Palmer (we could do a chapter a week), or Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn?
Any takers?

restarts tomorrow
wiht chapter 2

( am at work in day)

Don't know Malaleche. I still don't understand if the book is worth reading or not.

From waht I've read on this thread, I think the answer is NO.

Tell me about Toxic Childhood, then

"The A level student who told me he didn't know how to divide by 10??????!!!!!!! "

that's just TOO shocking