Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen
Joanna Faber · 2017
88/100
👍 Worth It
Half a million copies and a John Gottman endorsement are not hype — this book earns them by doing something genuinely hard: taking a research-backed communication framework and translating it into the actual, chaotic reality of life with a two-year-old. The comics, humor, and personal anecdotes keep it readable when parenting books often turn preachy. One of the stronger picks on the self-help shelf.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance88
craft86
originality80
accuracy88
hype82
age-fit92
human-eye88
Penny’s verdict88
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