Conversations with Your Child: How to Talk with Your Child at Every Age and Form Lifelong Bonds Conversations With Your Child by J Lambroschino (Author)
Children grow through different stages were parents are there best friends then they progress into the stage were children don’t want to be with there parents. Getting them to talk is hard than pulling a tooth. As Charlie reaches 16 in a couple months that is the stage I am at with Charlie. Although, with Suzzie who was 16 when she passed away I was still her best friend and she would talk to me about anything.
Which is why I was excited to read Conversations with Your Child: How to Talk with Your Child at Every Age and Form Lifelong Bonds Conversations With Your Child as I was PRAYING and believing it would open us communication not only with Charlie and I but David and Charlie. At the moment Charlie driving me to drink.
It isn’t from drugs or doing things he shouldn’t its just from the face he isn’t wanting to return to school. Nor is he wanting to do homework. All Charlie is doing is sleeping all day and staying up all night. I’ve told him if he doesn’t go to school he needs to get a job. Which is like speaking to a brick wall.
Which isn’t only happening with Charlie but David who gets tired of hearing me bring up school. If I could I would leave and I know that isn’t the answer to our problems. Before you say go to counseling we would need insurance which we don’t have. No, we can’t get Medicaid because David make to much which is a Godsend and a hindrance at the same time.
I thumbed through the book waiting for Charlie to get up this morning. I love how the Author gives us step by step instructions on how to have conversations with our children and how she included scripts I can print out to refer back to. The book touches on drugs which David will be able to share his drug abuse history with Charlie.
As well as allow us to talk to Charlie about his brother Travis who was 12 when he began taking drugs and ended up in prison. Thank the LORD is out now, married and has children of his own. Allowing Charlie to see that he isn’t the only one bad things happen to. As well as open doors on one of his friends shooting himself another one getting his girlfriend pregnant and his best friend quitting school.
With all of that and Charlie’s learning disabilities and I believe depression I worry more than ever about my son and its why I thank the LORD I found this book which is going to bring my family closer together. I also plan on sharing Conversations with Your Child: How to Talk with Your Child at Every Age and Form Lifelong Bonds Conversations With Your Child with the parents of all of Charlies friends as well as my family. I hope you do the same.
About:
J. Lambroschino offers you an inviting, informative, and clear how-to manual to parent a child of any age. From infancy to young adulthood, children learn to connect through talking. It starts with sounds, like crying. Your infant follows your eyes and lips as you speak and copies what you do. With amazement, you perceive the child’s first words. Connection is established through conversation!
Meaningful, wise parenting happens through family conversations. They are the vehicle that connects family members and creates relationships so learning can occur. Yet, as children grow and mature, you can find yourself slipping into mostly a disciplinarian’s role. The job of parenting involves more. It requires attention to complex situations and schedules. It also necessitates a dynamic process of frequent updates, clean outs, and new ideas, seeking help from other parents, professionals, many great books, and spiritual resources. Expert tools, along with personal reflection on your own experiences, can lead you to choose a parenting style and framework for your home.
Lambroschino breaks down the book’s content into digestible bullets, lists of essentials, and motivational quotes. The most useful elements are her talking points and sample scripts that walk you through trouble spots and pinpoint basic responsibilities.
Meet the Author:
J. Lambroschino, followed up her twenty-two-year nursing career with service in the mental health profession for twenty-five-plus years. She enjoys working with families and individuals and specializes in women’s transitions.
A resident of Falmouth, Massachusetts, for more than three decades, she loves sharing the natural beauty of Cape Cod with her encouraging husband of thirty years, and their dog Theo. She is also a proud parent of three daughters and one son, and grandparent to five beautiful grandchildren.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
