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