How to Handle Hard-to-Handle Parents

This must-have resource helps educators work effectively with all parents, even the most difficult ones, and prevent problems before they happen. Maryln Appelbaum offers targeted strategies, solutions, and skills to establish positive and harmonious relationships with all parents, overcome adversity, enhance the home-school connection, and boost student performance.


How to Handle Hard-to-Handle Parents helps develop specific skills for communicating with all parents, including parents who are difficult, angry, overprotective, or overbearing. Packed with sample forms, letters, scenarios, and vignettes, plus techniques for involving families whose first language is not English, this guide helps educators:

•Establish relationships with parents of all backgrounds
•Recognize, and work with, characteristics of difficult people
•Be proactive in getting parents to cooperate and follow through at home
•Conduct expert parent conferences
•Handle all types of parents, including “Know-It-All’s,” “Blamers,” “Helicopter Parents,” and more

Indispensable for teachers, school leaders, counselors, and all educators, this will become a much-referenced resource for building cooperative parent-teacher relationships that positively impact students’ academic success