With exciting stories, humorous illustrations, tips for parents and after-reading activities, this series is the perfect companion from your child's very first steps in phonics all the way to reading independence. It has six Stages to take your child from their first steps in phonics to being independent readers. I used this communication format to navigate a divorce, made more difficult by interceding family defending their own. I don’t want to get down in the mud with them (unpleasant and unproductive) and yet I need to advocate for my client or myself (I can’t just ignore them).

BIFF: Quick Responses to High-Conflict People, Their Personal BIFF: Quick Responses to High-Conflict People, Their Personal

This leaves much less for the other person to react to and is often sufficient to get your main point across. A BIFF response can be applied in any communication anywhere - on the Internet, in a letter or in person.

They are often able to use the phonics they have learned without being reminded, and they are starting to feel more comfortable reading by themselves. From this book I've learnt how to deal with a complicated person in a simple, easy to understand way, and we're both benefiting. Bill Eddy, LCSW, JD, is a lawyer, therapist, mediator, Training Director of the High Conflict Institute in San Diego, and the author of several books including 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life (2018).

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories - Oxford University Press Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories - Oxford University Press

Explore the fantastic nature all around you in this fascinating collection of six Read with Oxford non-fiction texts, ideal for children who are growing in reading confidence. It is chocked full of examples for all kinds of situations to demonstrate how universal the strategy is. Samantha thought about including this sentence: “But I disagree that I was just ‘using’ you and not helping you at all. This eBook library is perfect for use in the classroom or to share books with children to read at home.Reward good work and build confidence with fun stickers and support learning with the handy tips for parents.

BIFF for CoParent Communication: Your Guide to Difficult

The idea is not to win but to become free of common reactions when under duress and to sharpen your intelligence and integrity in difficult situations.

Use these techniques to develop your self resolve, establish boundaries and keep a bridge available to you when children are involved. No need to go backward in time and open up the past, which people rarely agree on anyway if it’s already become hostile. A wonderful mixture of stories including familiar settings to reassure children, and fantasy adventures to inspire them.

Guide to Biff, Chip and Kipper - Oxford Owl for Home

BIFF is a very practical system and it seems to be working to resolve issues with high conflict people. This guide provides the information and advice you need to support your child’s success with reading. Help your child build their vocabulary and develop spelling skills with age-appropriate dictionaries from Oxford children's dictionaries. Play a game of 'I Spy' with Biff, celebrate Dad's birthday and join the children as they dress up in funny costumes! they helped me to understand the situation, but it wasn't until I read BIFF that I found to tools to solve the problem.Wish I'd known about BIFF earlier in my professional career and all my relationships that involve high conflict personalities. But it is a challenge to my lawyerly instincts, because of the old legal maxim that "silence is assent" I tend to be sure to address and refute each allegation, point-by-point.