The core principles are the same, but the update stands on its own. Where the original “Kids” acts more like a workbook, asking the reader to self-generate responses, “Little Kids” feels more like it’s trying to download a response system into your head via modeling and story-telling. I personally prefer this system better, because the workbook approach feels like it’s only getting to my System 2 (sorry for the colloquialism). Meanwhile being surrounded with examples and stories works better for me to fully integrate a new mode of interaction.
I too prefer examples and stories to self-generated responses, so I thought it’d be a useful complement to others like weft and I.
The ‘Resources’ section lists How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk [book] -- I also enjoyed weft’s Book Review: How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen, written by Julie King and Joanne Faber, daughter of Adele Faber, who co-wrote the former with Elaine Mazlich. Quoting weft:
I too prefer examples and stories to self-generated responses, so I thought it’d be a useful complement to others like weft and I.
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I found Crucial Conversations to be the adult version of How To Talk So… and it seriously levelled up my interpersonal skills at the time.
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