Teach Your Kids Listening Skills (the Real ABC's)
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Teach Your Kids Listening Skills (the Real ABC's)
Great tips, thanks. I find it's helpful, both as a parent and as a teacher, to really pay attention to how much we repeat ourselves. This, in effect, trains kids not to listen the first time.
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Listening is quickly becoming a lost art. This had some great ideas on how to change that.
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This article offers some great information. I started volunteering at my sons preschool and have learned so much from the teachers there. For example, the zipping of lips. They "zip it, lock it, put it in your pocket" when they need to listen at circle time. I think we need to remember that if we want them to listen to us, we need to set the example of how to listen by doing the same when they are talking.
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A lot of this information was helpful, and it's comforting to know i'm doing something right. I find that when I talk to my son, 7 years old with ADD, I only ask about one or two things and then I ask him to repeat what i've said. I find this really helps because many times we talk to much and the children get lost in our words.
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Too often we expect our children to listen when we don't bother to take the time to look them in the eye and speak to them. I've found that if I don't yell across the room -- but rather walk over to them, look at them, and get them to look at me -- they tend to listen and respond much better.
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I found the eye contact tip to be crucial. I have a theory that kids listen with their eyes as well as their ears! When I made sure our son was looking at me, I found that he automatically listened much more attentively.
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This is so important -- as they get older it only gets tougher, so establishing these skills early is the key.
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