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The book I chose for analysis paper 3 is How to Negotiate With Kids…. even when you think you shouldn’t wittern by Scott Brown. It is targeted towards parents who have hardtime to manage conflict with kids (aged two to twelve) and have diffculties in negotiating with them. Scott Brown is a founding member of Harvard Negotiation Project, an expert on political and corporate conflict and a father of four. Scott Brown found that parents face the same situation as negotiators and researchers said that children suffered form too much conlict, so when parents follow the techniques in the book, not only will the family get harmonier, but also will children grow up happily.
The selling point of this book is it combined the best knowledge of managing conflict with the best practices of parenting. It teaches parents how to manage their emotions and reations during conflict, how to manage child’s emotions and sterngthen child’s emotional control, how to understand child and focus child’s attention, how to negotiate solutions to common problems, how to reduce conflict at home. This selling point makes the book different from other parenting books. It has comics to make it as an relaxing book, dialogue of parents and children in conflict as examples, and it gives many solution charts to make it more useful.
The book contains ten chapters, first it devided people in different conflict styles, then followed the conflict timeline, it gives instructions to manage both parent and children’s emotions during a conflict, and tells parents how to listen, talk and persuade. It recommands parents to set appropriate disciplines to avoid conflict and sets topics that are nonnegotiable.
Ok – good.