Do You Know How to Talk with Your Young Child?: Learn the 4 Step Approach to Converse and Connect
By Suanne Lewis
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Finding mindful communication moments in the whirlwind of parenting can feel like an elusive dream. Do You Know How to Talk with Your Young Child? is your guide to surviving and thriving in these precious years with young children.
Discover practical techniques that empower you to release tension, redirec
Suanne Lewis
Dr. Lewis is a psychologist who worked with individuals and groups ranging from children to golden agers. In her extensive therapy work, she has used storytelling to help people effectively learn about themselves and the world, helping them to focus attention and develop a sense of connection with others. She has taught effective communication skills as a lecturer in various health organizations as well as an assistant professor in a university MBA Program. Suanne raised a child successfully as a single working mother for many years, using techniques she applies in her program. She credits her upbringing in her extended family for inspiring her love of storytelling, nature, and animals, in addition to a willingness to have open conversations in a peaceful setting. A daily practitioner of yoga, T'ai Chi Chih, and qigong, Suanne became a nationally certified trainer/teacher of yoga and T'ai Chi Chih to help her clients better learn to "embody" focused attention, relaxation, balance, and overall wellness. She lives a healthy lifestyle spending time in nature and using her observations as material for her teaching tales. She is a wife, mother, and dog enthusiast.
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Do You Know How to Talk with Your Young Child? - Suanne Lewis
Introduction
Welcome to our parent-to-young-child workbook. I want to be clear that this book is a book to enjoy, remember, and create warm memories of special times when talking with your child about life events.
This book is not a parenting book in the sense of understanding discipline, shaping behavior, and problem-solving. It is, instead, designed as an encouragement to approach communicating with regularity as a parenting figure with curiosity, interest, observation, a challenge to think critically, and enough courage to explore what observations of life your unique little child has!
This program is a communication program, fueled by a desire to perform our most important job as a human in a more effective way. As a social work professional recently reminded me, when parents engage in a parenting class, there may be a belief that there’s a deficit, an inability to parent correctly.
If you have opened this workbook, you have the motivation to have a memorable, open, warm, and engaging relationship with your child. That speaks well of you as a parent figure, a point in your favor! You are committed to entering and participating in an expanding spiral of communication and relationship.
Today, it seems that more than ever parents and caregivers are busy coping with world issues, massive social change, fears for health and personal safety, and concerns about changes in finances and workplace situations. While all these issues are pressing on us, there is a higher demand for children’s involvement in outside group activities, such as sports teams and other special interest classes. There is a pull for children to be communicating or watching online activities that parents often aren’t fully aware of.
With multiple demands for children’s and parents’ attention, it is increasingly challenging for parents to provide the essential time and guidance in the home, once devoted to shaping and explaining the importance of positive values in our personal lives and our interaction with the world at large.
Often extended families are no longer available to share interaction, communication, and rich family stories that provide a tapestry of personal connection and communication. Shaping positive personal values has become a difficult issue given the tendency of social media to sensationalize stories of public heroes
losing their credibility. This can give children an early sense of skepticism, pessimism, and sometimes fear.
The issues of childhood anxiety and sense of doubt have increased due to what seems to be increasing violence by seemingly disenfranchised youth, many of whom seem to feel secretive, ostracized, and isolated.
Despite or perhaps because of the great changes in our world and its social structures, we need to take some time each day to clarify and grow more comfortable with our sense of positive values. We need to help our children learn the importance of such values as love, kindness, and respect, despite the hardships they see around them.
There are other benefits to developing and maintaining an open relationship with your child based on effective communication skills. Students with involved parents have been found to have better grades and achievement test scores, attend school more regularly, have better social skills, show improved behavior, and adapt well to school.
Developmentally, children are more open to parental influence before the pre-teen and teen years. Developing an open communication relationship in which your child has learned and can discuss positive parental values and expectations is important to establish in early childhood.
Children learn from observation, so demonstrating effective and caring parental communication provides essential modeling for your child. Asking for your child’s opinions and experiences and promoting their version of problem-solving encourages your child to express him or herself and builds self-understanding and confidence. This can give your child increased resilience in times of unexpected change.
Your respect for your child’s opinions and experiences as an individual fosters trust in you and respect for you, which are essential as you help guide your child in his/her maturation.
Effective communication because it is reciprocal, based on openness, honesty, love, and emotional presence, causes a relationship to expand and deepen. Despite stressors, growth, differing lifestyles, disagreements, and disappointments, the relationship can endure because you have been a presence, a witness, and a co-creator of understanding and development. What an honorable role for a parenting figure!
When parents of young children take action to influence the development of positive values and open, honest communication, they ensure a more promising future for their child and the world at large.
The main topics for our work will include the following:
1. Establishing a communication space.
2. Transitioning to relaxed listening and talking using moving and focusing techniques.
3. Learning and practicing effective communication techniques for open conversations and relationship building.
4. Using teaching stories to provide themes, language, characters, and connections for opening non-threatening discussions.
5. Adopting suggested small projects to foster planning, cooperation, increased conversation, shared success, and living
the values discussed.
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