Hi every one, before we begin I would appreciate if you do a small exercise. Close your eyes and breathe deeply and slowly. Visualize a little, chubby, naughty kid playing with you, kissing you, rubbing its cheek against yours. How does it feel like? Fabulous, heavenly this is what most of us would respond.
Children are one of the most precious gifts we have on this planet and they need a lot of attention and care in the process of growing up and developing into responsible citizens. We have to exercise a lot of caution when communicating with children because, printing of thought patterns takes place instantly in the case of children and they remember the incidents forever.
Children are like programmable logic boards we use in the world of computers and electronics and things are very difficult to erase from the minds of children. One has to be very careful handling them.
The prime factor is to come from the feelings of unconditional love and forgiveness when communicating with children.
Let us see how we can communicate effectively with children:
1- The very first thing we must remember in this case is that we have to relate with the children and not dominate them.
One has to come down to the level of understanding what the children want and what would make them feel at ease. It is very important to discipline them but this should come gradually through bringing them to understand the realities of life slowly and with a lot of love and patience.
2- Shouting at the kids or beating them should be strictly avoided.
For they will get used to this with time and you would not be able to make them good people; rather negative thought patterns would damage their natural growth.
3- Try to connect with the children with soft words and be friendly with them.
Stories and games are the best ways to come in close proximity with them and plant seeds of good manners, ethics and discipline on this soil.
4- Try to watch what your children like the most.
And create an environment conducive for their natural and unhindered growth.
These are some practical actions to communicate effectively with our children,
I will tell you a lot more in the next post.
See you then.