How many of us grew up with communication problems of our own? Where at home, our conversations were not easy to come by with parents or siblings? Either mom and dad were too tired or too tied up in their problems to communicate with us about our own strange moods and teenage issues. It’s important to break that pattern with our kids. Communication is the lifeblood to a happy understanding between parent and child. It’s the opportunity to get to know who they are, and with their feedback, to teach them a little bit about us. Kids appreciate this. They want their parents to care about them in an honest and compassionate way. Even if communication has been poor in the past, there’s no better time to straighten this out than right now.
Make time for our children. Take time out of each night to ask them what their day was like. Find out their moods, because these are good indicators of their happiness level. And with a strong level of positive contentment comes excelled performance. If communication goes bad one day, don’t fret just start again the next. And always communicate from a positive place.
We don’t like it when someone criticizes us, or gets on our cases constantly, and neither do kids. Once we’ve opened that line of dialogue, and trust has been established between us, then we have the basis set up to begin discussing deeper issues, and problems that need to be dealt with. Our kids learn their communication from those around them, and it’s better that they learn it from us, parents who are emotionally healthy and verbally communicative.
jenninthecity
msvanity
bella4seasons
zenpasse
