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Articles

LISTENING: What we can do about it!

How can we get our kids to listen to us? Listening: this is one of the main topics of complaint I hear about from parents. Both featured articles focus on the fine art of better listening.

Are you Training Your Children to Ignore You?

This first article explains how we unwittingly teach our kids to ignore us while really desiring their attention. It offers five steps we can take to be proactive in our parenting in order to help facilitate listening. Try these steps out and see how they work for you!

My Pre-teen Won’t Talk To Me Anymore! …And She Doesn’t Listen To Me Either!

The second article also acknowledges our role in our kids in-ability to listen to us but takes a different angle. It deals with how our interactions with teens and preteens often tend to shut them down. Because they need to be heard before they can hear, when we fail to listen we also fail to be listened to. This article offers solid tips for successful, effective listening and gives advice to immediately get started on better communication with your elementary, middle or high school child.