Coaching practices for How to Win Friends and Influence People for My Teenager
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- I keep losing the same argument by pushing harder, and it’s starting to dawn on me that I’ve never once tried to actually see it from their side first
- I dominate conversations without meaning to
- I walk into conversations preoccupied with how I’m coming across
- Every conversation with my kid about their behavior turns into me laying down the law and them digging in, and I want a way to actually talk it through together
- I tell my kid "good job, you’re so smart" constantly, and now they freeze up at anything hard and keep looking to me to confirm they’re okay
Practices that may help
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Made Practical
Dale Carnegie’s book reduces to one disposition expressed many ways: become genuinely interested in other people and make them feel important — through their names, real listening, and sincere appreciation rather than flattery. The principles are practitioner wisdom rather than tested protocols, but most align with well-established findings on reciprocity and liking. - See things from the other person’s point of view
Try honestly to see things from the other person’s angle before you argue your own.
How to Win Friends and Influence People, Made Practical - Be a good listener; encourage others to talk about themselves
Most people would rather have a great listener than a great talker.
How to Win Friends and Influence People, Made Practical - Become genuinely interested in other people
You make more friends in two months by being interested in others than in two years trying to make them interested in you.
How to Win Friends and Influence People, Made Practical - Use Plan B: the three-step collaborative conversation
Empathize with the child’s concern, share yours, and invite them to solve it together.
Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene) - Encourage the effort and the process, not the outcome
Encouragement builds inner confidence; outcome-praise creates dependency on adult evaluation.
Natural and Logical Consequences (Rudolf Dreikurs) - Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Encourage specific contributions and efforts
"You set the table without being asked — that helped the whole family" is more powerful than "Good job."
Positive Discipline (Jane Nelsen) - Use family meetings to solve problems together
When children help solve the problem, they own the solution — and solutions they own, they actually follow.
Positive Discipline (Jane Nelsen) - Communicate effectively with Influence-style people
Connect personally first, let enthusiasm breathe, and make the vision clear before the detail.
DISC Behavioral Styles
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Dale Carnegie’s book reduces to one disposition expressed many ways: become genuinely interested in other people and make them feel important — through their names, real listening, and sincere appreciation rather than flattery. The principles are practitioner wisdom rather than tested protocols, but most align with well-established findings on reciprocity and liking.
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