Posts Tagged ‘listening’
4 Tips For Building Close Communication With Your Child
I’m not a parenting expert. I don’t even play one on TV. I may occasionally start talking like I know it all and the next the day my kids put me back in my place by defying all acceptable codes of behaviour. Now that my boys are teenagers I can see one particular area where I might deserve a…
Read MoreHow To Get Your Child To Listen To You
Do you feel a broken record – repeating the same instruction to your child over and over? Not sure whether to book them in for a hearing test or yourself into the looney bin? How can you get your child to listen to you the first time you say it? I used to go nuts over my boys’ inability to…
Read MoreHow to Think Before Reacting To Your Kids
I was thrilled with the opportunity to write a guest blog for one of my favourite websites, Tiny Buddha, about my experience of learning to press my mental pause button and think before reacting. It was a difficult to write as Tiny Buddha have a diverse audience and the blogs they publish aren’t gender specific or…
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