How to Handle Difficult Parents

by Tingley, Suzanne Capek

• ISBN13: 9781593639587
• ISBN10: 1593639589
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-01
• Publisher: Prufrock Pr

Summary

How to Handle Difficult Parents is a funny, but practical, guide to working effectively with parents and avoiding unnecessary conflict. Whether you're a teacher (regular or special education) or a coach, this book will give you practical suggestions regarding what to say and how to say it to parents who question your lesson plans, challenge your disciplinary decisions, or threaten to tell the principal on you. Bringing years of experience as a teacher, principal, superintendent, and professor, the author shows teachers how to handle the most difficult parent types, including the Helicopter Mom, the Caped Crusader, Ms. "Quit Picking on My Kid," The Intimidator, No Show's Dad, and Pinocchio's Mom, among others. Emphasizing ways to help create constructive conversation, the revised edition of "How to Handle Difficult Parents" is a must-have for teachers everywhere, both those just beginning and those already deep in the trenches.

Author Biography

Suzanne Capek Tingley has been a teacher, principal, school superintendent, and adjunct professor in education administration at the State University of New York at Oswego. She is a writer and consultant for Inside the School, a Magna Publication, and her blog, Practical Leadership, is sponsored by the Scholastic Administrator website. Her work has appeared in many educational journals.

Table of Contents

Dealing With Parents 101	p. 1
A Short and Subjective History of Parents	p. 5
The Acorn May Not Fall Far From the Oak	p. 19
Pinocchio's Mom	p. 23
Caped Crusader	p. 31
Ms. "Quit Picking on My Kid"	p. 41
The Intimidator	p. 53
The Stealth Zapper	p. 59
The Uncivil Libertarian	p. 67
Mr. NBA	p. 75
No Show's Dad	p. 81
The Advocate	p. 89
Helicopter Mom	p. 95
The Competitor	p. 105
Who's the Fairest of Them All?	p. 113
Tips for Effective Parent Conferences	p. 119
When Nothing Works	p. 125
A Final Assessment	p. 129
References	p. 139
About the Author	p. 141
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