DawnTalk™ Friendly Technology
by Dawn Fry

Families Want to Resolve Conflicts Without Yelling

October 2004

OAKLAND, CA - Today, Dawn Fry, founder of Helping Our Children Productions, announced the release of the DawnTalkTM Childcare Audio Handbook, a Friendly Technology product. Families want to resolve conflicts without yelling and want to improve the quality of their relationships with their children. But where do they start? This two CD set has provided families and professionals alike with the benefits of cooperative and happy children.

Every day it is more evident that our children are in crisis. A study by Sociologist Murry A. Straus with the Family Research Lab at the University of New Hampshire (along with many other studies) linked parental verbal aggressiveness with increased delinquency, depression and even bulimia. Dr. Straus found that more than half of the parents screamed, yelled or shouted in rage at their infants.

This is where DawnTalk helps. It replaces ineffective behaviors that lead to physical and emotional violence with proven methods that explain exactly what to say and do to resolve and avoid problems in a loving and supportive way. The DawnTalk Childcare Audio Handbook also teaches a child abuse prevention plan. Currently there are no other published works on childcare that teach a lexicon of friendly discipline.

An area of family-child relationships that can be improved upon right away is communication, which affects every aspect of relationships directly. Dawn Fry, one of the nation’s leading childcare educators, provides families and children with the tools and skills that build a child’s emotional intelligence, while still honoring the child’s rights. Her dynamic Friendly Technology gives families options to solve problems without resorting to authoritarianism.

DawnTalk Friendly Technology offers guidelines that help children learn the skills they need for successful integration into our rapidly evolving technological society. The language used in the guidelines is sensitive to our ever more diverse society, giving practical help to families and childcare providers. The Friendly Technology teaches families an alternative method of communicating with children, DawnTalk. Rather than using such techniques as blaming, shaming, preaching and punishing to manipulate a child to behave, DawnTalk teaches methods such as:

• Equality and Order
  
• NO is NOT For Children
  
• Responsible Choices
  
• Discipline without Punishment
  

Life is easier with DawnTalk Friendly Communication Skills because it brings additional understanding, patience and confidence. Families learn how to have more cooperation. This means that adults experience children who are more willing to follow directions and who have fewer behavioral problems like temper tantrums, whining or other power struggles. Families also learn effective ways to teach their children successful social skills. With DawnTalk Friendly Communication Skills parenting becomes easier and more enjoyable because when you live with friendliness the world is a happier place.

T: (510) 638-1464
F: (206) 202-2225E: Dawn@DawnTalk.com