Alan Johnstone

These five books offer parents of children aged 2- 6 years skills that are not readily available socially. The first book "Positive Parental Communication" offers parents verbal and linguistic skills which provide a parent ways in which to positively influence their children. Furthermore, this book also offers parents an insight into how stories, as metaphors, can be used to help children alter behaviour and emotional response. Techniques from the fields of hypnosis and NLP are provided to parents in this book. The four other books in the set are each a working example of how such stories are created and provide notes as to the techniques used linguistically. Each book builds on the skill set of the one before. A recording of each story is also available so that a parent may understand the manner in which these stories are told. The author realises that it is not possible to provide a complete paediatric hypnotheraphy skill set by means of these books, but offers them to parents, child therapists and teachers, in the hope that they may recognise the value of such a skill set and determine to advance their knowledge of such.