Why do you need to talk with your children?
Talking with your child when they are young not only foster closer relationship, but help him or her to develop better language skills earlier. Children develop better understanding and judgment of the world as they have intelligent conversations with adults. However, it doesn’t have to be always serious conversation that gears toward increasing your child’s intelligence! When you talk to your child in a congenial way about everyday topics or about the encounters and happenings in the day, it indicates mutual interest and caring, and it helps to bond with your child.
Talking with your child has to be a two way process of talking and listening, not just you talk and the child listens. :-) If talking is natural and conversations are congenial, you will have an easier time later when sensitive topics as smoking, drugs or premarital sex are discussed. If you do not start now, when they are teenagers, they will just put on the headphones or MP3 pretend they are listening when you try to talk to them.
We all have the need to be heard regardless of our age, when we listen to our children, we learn about their interests and their concerns, when we listen without judgment and without the need to teach or preach, our children dare to tell us about who they are, how they feel, and what they want or need.
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