May’s Parenting Challenge is talking to your children!

Week 1: Read the blog post and try to “catch” your child being good and compliment them, sing a silly song about it, or cheer for them. Try to do this 2-3 times each day this week!!

Week 2: Make sure your child overhears you saying something wonderful about them to someone else!

Week 3: Get on your child’s eye level, look into their eyes and point out their positive character traits.

Blog Post

I know this is a simple thing and many of us think that we do this, but do we really?

Experience

My experience as a teacher (and recently speaking to current teachers) has revealed that children lack good communication skills. They don’t know about give and take during a conversation. They don’t know that listening is a vital skill of communicating and conversing.

Read the rest of my guest post on I Can Teach My Child!

Here is another useful blog post.