Health And General Life Care: [ACWDYG ] How To Have A Better Relationship With Your Children

[ACWDYG ] How To Have A Better Relationship With Your Children

Thursday 17 January 2008

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I got a very long email today on "How to have a better relationship with
your Children." This email is about 2000 words or more. The author had
broken the process of building the relationship with children into 4
parts namely communication, listening, taking action and showing praise
and love. What was written in the email is not only useful for building
a better relationship with children but can also be applied in any
relationships.

Communication is very important in any relationships. It is not simply
conversing but also understanding the point of view of the other person.
This bring me to an email which I read before. In that email about a
father and his son. The son was planting a acorn seed with his father.
On seeing the worried look on the face of his son. The father told the
son not to worry as by summer, the acorn's seedling will grow up to knee
length height. The son asked his father, "your knee height or my knee
height?"

Listening is in fact another crucial part of communication as most
people tend to speak more than they listen. Instead we should be
listening more to what people are saying rather than speaking. And that
is probably why we have a pair of ears and only one mouth.

By Nicholl McGuire

You have come to a realization that you simply don't have a close
relationship with your children. It seems as if just yesterday they were
newborns and now they have become children who have deep heartfelt
feelings that they can only describe in their most eloquent way. They
may have told you that they don't like their dad, grandma is weird, the
babysitter is not cool, you are mean or in some cases went so far as to
say, "I hate you!" Why has your once "little ity bity baby boo boo" who
couldn't seem to get enough of you, has reached a point that they rather
not see or talk to you?

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