Stop the Lecturing Start the Conversation: Increasing Your Children's Emotional Intelligence
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- Synopsis
- This book provides specific strategies for parents, teachers and caregivers who want to enhance the emotional and intellectual intelligence of children. Parents of toddlers often feel frustrated when they cannot communicate with their children in a positive way. Parents of pre-teens and teenagers often feel that their children are "tuning" them out. Many parents resort to lecturing or shouting in order to try and break through these communication barriers. This book aims to provide parents and educators with strategies for establishing a dialogue with children so that they are truly engaged in conversation and the learning process. Establishing a dialogue with children is crucial for our children's emotional, intellectual and social growth. When we establish dialogue or two -way communications with our children we are also part of the learning equation. We have many lessons to teach our children, but our children also have many lessons to teach us. Unfortunately, many of us are trapped in a monologue style of communication. We are telling our children what they can and can not do, we are explaining the rules, we are setting boundaries and we are often not listening to our children. Perhaps you want to protest at this point and say that you do listen to your children and that you try to patiently answer all of their questions. And children are generally asking many questions of the journalistic interrogation kind - Why? Where? When How? What? The fact that children are asking these questions is an indication of their quest to understand the world and the demands that it is making on them. But simply answering a child's questions - patiently or impatiently - is not a true dialogue. A dialogue occurs when two or more people engage in conversation about a subject or a decision and takes turns asking questions and listening to responses. The ideal Socratic Method involves the asking and answering of questions in order to stimulate critical thinking. The opposite of dialogue is a monologue. One person is speaking and others are supposed to be listening. Since monologues eventually become boring and non-engaging children eventually tune out their parents monologues. Many parents will finally exclaim in frustration "Am I talking to myself?" and resort to shouting or talking in an angry tone of voice to get their children's attention. Dialogue, on the other hand, is an engagement and an exchange between two people. This book will provide specific strategies to parents, teachers and caregivers that are designed to enhance the social, emotional and spiritual growth of children and young people.
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 137 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781478381266
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Date of Addition:
- 10/08/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Susan Harris Sidsworth
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Self-Help, Parenting and Family, Education
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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