Praise is nice where appreciation is awesome. So what is the difference and why does it matter to our children that we know?
Read on to find out….
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Communicating with Teens (& Tweens)
The back-chatting, the eye-rolling and mono-syllabic communication start to appear in early tweens and the response I’ve heard from parents is a variety of fear and panic for what the teenage years might bring and a pang of sadness at the end of childhood. Actually, once in full swing of parenting the teenage years, most parents say it’s not so bad. They do, however, acknowledge that it has challenges! One of the biggest of these is communicating in a way that avoids arguments.
Why Listening to Our Children is Important
Listening to your child with half an ear while you do something else isn’t the kind of listening we’re talking about here! To parent well listening is a skill you need to learn so here's why it matters and how to do it.
When we are listening in a way that benefits our child, we are listening to…