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Cool Communication: From Conflict to Cooperation
for Parents and Kids

Growing up can be hard on both parents and kids. Kids want their freedom to choose their friends, their clothes, their activities. Parents want to be sure that their kids are safe, protected and are making good choices about their lives. Both parents and kids want to be listened to and respected. Using Cool Communication, parents and adolescents can learn to talk to - and even understand - each other. With funny anecdotes and reassuring advice, Andrea Frank Henkart and her daughter, Journey, explain both sides of this often turbulent and frustrating relationship. Parents learn how to foster their children's responsibility and self-control while maintaining their own sanity, and kids learn techniques for gaining respect and trust. With a little practice and patience, agreements can be made that will work for everybody - without damaging anyone's vocal cords.

For Parents:
-Raise loving, trustworthy, respectful, considerate children
-Talk calmly with your kids about drugs, sex, drinking and curfews
-Get your kids to listen without raising your voice
-Avoid the parenting mistakes your parents made
-Provide fair limits and positive discipline

For Kids:
-Earn respect from your parents
-Get parents to respect your privacy
-Gain permission to do the things you want to do
-Learn to keep peace in your family
-Show your parents they can trust you

Whether the issue is messy rooms, school, or friends, Cool Communication provides a much-needed perspective from both the parents' and the kids' sides in understanding the issue and, more importantly, how it can be resolved.

Price: $15.95

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Endorsements:

“Imagine the joy of learning to connect with your son or daughter on a level that overcomes all the petty conflicts; Andrea Frank Henkart and her daughter Journey have figured out a way to not only get along, but to also celebrate each other’s spirit.”

Oprah Winfrey
The Oprah Show

"Cool Communication will help both parents and children in establishing a nurturing and healthy relationship. I highly recommend it."

Deepak Chopra, M.D.
The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success

"Cool Communication reveals what parents need to know about their children and what children want their parents to know about them. Written by a mother-daughter team, this book demonstrates how kids and parents can coexist while maintaining mutual respect, strong communication skills, and high self-esteem. Andrea and her daughter, Journey, provide their readers with powerful tools that will make a difference in family communication immediately."

John Gray, Ph.D.
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

"A unique book, written to be read by parents and children. Helps children understand their parents and parents understand their children, with practical, sensible and sound guidance for every parent-child interaction. It is beautiful. If every parent and every child would read this book, children would be able to recall their wondrous essence and society would be transformed. Cool Communication is the best book I have read on the subject."

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
Giving The Love That Heals: A Guide For Parents

"Cool Communication is a unique, delightfully readable and important work offering valuable insight into parent, child, family, and human relations in general."

Joseph Chilton Pearce
The Magical Child

“Andrea and Journey have worked through many of the common frustrations of parent-teen pitfalls. Their model provides a wonderful template of tools and techniques that parents and children can use to achieve a more authentic and lasting connection.”

Gilda Carle, Ph.D.
Teen Magazine columnist and author
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“Through their candid conversations, Andrea and Journey teach us how to use kindness and mutual respect even when we are furious! They teach us how to create a home where integrity, compassion, and strong family values can grow.”

Felice Willet
Co-founder of Day Runner

"In their book Cool Communication, Andrea and Journey demonstrate all the exciting possibilities of what two role models can show to parents on how to truly communicate. Great book! Great workshop!"

Michael Pritchard
Child advocate, Host of HBO & PBS Specials

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