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Watch Before You Speak, Play Before You Teach

How to Understand and Raise a Cooperative Child Through Connection and Effective Communication

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Watch Before You Speak, Play Before You Teach

By: Darius Ryan-Kadem
Narrated by: Darius Ryan-Kadem
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Understanding your child begins with seeing beneath the behaviour.

This book introduces three essential pillars for interpreting children’s actions, deepening communication, and fostering cooperation. Rooted in developmental insight, it challenges common approaches like punishment, bribes, and threats—offering instead a respectful framework built on boundaries, expectations, and natural consequences.

With a focus on connection over control, it explores how to manage conflict, reduce power struggles, and support emotional growth, learning, and social development. Play is presented as a powerful tool for strengthening these areas.

Blending analytical depth with real-life examples, this is a practical and compassionate guide for navigating the everyday challenges of parenting. Though each child is unique, the principles shared here offer a flexible, thoughtful foundation for raising confident, cooperative, and emotionally secure children.

©2025 Darius Ryan-Kadem (P)2025 Darius Ryan-Kadem
Infants & Toddlers Parenting & Families Relationships

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