The Art of Negotiation (with Children)

This article, When and How to Negotiate with Your Kids, from the website The Successful Parent, is a great resource for information on how to help children learn to communicate effectively.  The article starts off describing why to use negotiation: 

"Negotiation is a valuable tool to use with your kids because helps them develop some important skills. Most notable are:

• Increased capacity to express thoughts and feelings verbally
• Enhanced ability to think objectively and discriminatively
• Skills in cooperative problem-solving
• Self-awareness
• Consideration of other’s needs as well as their own
• Coming up with creative solutions"

Those are good skills for kids--and adults--to learn!  It's a quick and easy read, worth the time to read and definitely worth the time to learn how to do with your kids! 

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