Talk to Your Children
I know this is a simple thing and many of us think that nosotros do this, but do nosotros really?
Experience
My feel as a teacher (and recently speaking to current teachers) has revealed that children lack expert advice skills. They don't know about requite and accept during a chat. They don't know that listening is a vital skill of communicating and conversing.
For instance, just the other day, I was talking to a teacher. She said, "I'm but so far behind considering the kids are not used to listening and answering questions. I'll ask them what day information technology is and they will either not say anything or look up at the sky and say something similar, Umm, blue?!"
Now this could just be a lack of vocabulary, but I was just having this conversation with her; it's November, and they do calendar activities every day.
Why Is This Happening?
I oasis't done a formal report on this, so this is all speculation. However, parents are decorated. Parents are tired. Parents are stressed. Parents are depleted. Virtually families have both parents working outside the domicile (and of class, in that location are oh so many unmarried parent families out there as well) that have to deal with all the stress and responsibility of their jobs and and so come home drained, still having tons of work on their plates. Especially due to the state of our nation's economy, many people are shouldering the tasks and responsibilities that used to be shared by other people at work. It's no wonder that parents come dwelling house, feed the children and so "check out" until it'south fourth dimension to get the kids ready for bed.
What Tin We Do?
Nosotros need to take activeness. We need to consciously determine, that no matter how tired, stressed, or depleted we are, that our children are our top priority. And nosotros need to prove them that. They need to FEEL that. It's non enough to just tell them.
Try your best to implement at least one of these suggestions:
- Swallow dinner every bit a family and have a requite and have conversation, brand sure to inquire your children open up ended questions (questions that require a response other than a yes or a no)
- Enquire your children what their favorite office of their 24-hour interval was; what their least favorite office was; what was the hardest part of their day was, etc
- Ask them almost school
- Have them get ready for bed earlier and take a quiet conversation with them while they are settling downwards in bed. Read them a story kickoff and then y'all tin talk almost the story.
The ideal scenario would be to spent at To the lowest degree 10 minutes of quality, uninterrupted time, individually with each child.
Art of Conversation
- wait at and confront the person yous are talking to
- brand heart contact
- heed advisedly and echo a footling of what they say
- ask questions to get more details
- be in the moment
Carolynn is an an Early Childhood, Elementary Education teacher, turned stay at home mom to 4 children: half-dozen, 5, 3, and 20 months. She blogs about parenting and life at www.mylittlebitoflife.com.
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