In July 15, 1944 a young girl called Anne Frank wrote this statement “…if you’re wondering if it’s harder for the adults here than for the children, the answer is no… older people have an opinion about everything and are sure of themselves and their actions. It is twice as hard for us young people to hold on to our opinions at a time when ideals are being shattered…” (July 15, 1944) Anne Frank was one of the many children involved in Hitter’s war, and She is one of the many children who wrote a diary of her experiences with this. The quote is stating the hardship of children vs. adults. The children didn’t know most of what was happening, and she is stating that the older people were more understanding of the situation they were in.…
It is important for children to feel they can express their feelings and opinions, sometimes children need help in doing this. If they feel they can not express them they may become frustrated and show unwanted behaviour. This is why its important to listen to what the children want to do, the reason why they are showing unwanted behaviour and ideas is because these are all ways of helping children to develop confidence.…
It’s easy to think toy know everything everyone else is saying and just wanting them to stop or infact ‘just get to the bottom line’. Thoughts like this make it difficult to properly hear and interpret the speaker’s words and can deny both parties the opportunity for deeper understanding and to resolve potential misunderstandings. ‘Mostly when people are speaking, they are showing feelings, not just information and facts. When the listener responds back to the facts while ignoring the feelings, this can leave the speaker with an unsatisfied sense that their feelings haven’t been seen, understood or cared about hence leading to tension between listener and speaker’. This can subsequently make it more difficult for the speaker to then listen actively when it’s their turn to listen.Yet when the listener has tuned in to the feelings being expressed, as well as the information and facts, and shows a good attempt to acknowledge those feelings, then the speaker may gain more satisfaction and hence in turn feel more open and positive as the communication continues. Young children don’t tend to use much active listening as their minds are all over the place and making up random stories whenever it chooses, so active listening does not respond well to…
Effective communication is important with children because it helps them to feel valued. It shows them that their interests and opinions are listened to. When we listen and communicate with children, this gives them more self-confidence and it also helps to increase their self-esteem, both of these being so important for their future. The child we are communicating with needs to feel at ease and be given the opportunity to communicate back with comfort and confidence.…
When I think of the word “child”, I think of the word “innocent”, because that’s what children are, they are just young, open-minded humans that do not know the difference between right and wrong. Parents are a child’s number one idol and who they look up to…
Lying is something that people do in their daily lives, whether they choose to admit or not is their decision. It has become normal for children as well as adults to lie in their lives to avoid saying something they do not want to. Adults do it sometimes when they want to keep their children happy and avoid them from being sad if parents tell them the truth. Now children do lie quite more than adults for their own reasons. The real question is why do children lie? Children lie often because they think the truth hurts people’s feelings and they are afraid of telling the truth.…
I feel the most important point to remember when communicating with children, is that we are the role models and it’s us as adults that are the child’s first means of communication.…
* Respond authentically- continuously utilize legitimate answers and right information children should not be disparaged or chastised for what they say in the event that it reflects inclination states of mind, however kids should be given the right information.…
Though children may suffer from thoughts they shouldn’t have on their mind at a young age, it isn’t right to put them straight…
Honesty should be use to a certain extent. Sometimes lying is needed when you have to avoid giving away information to people that don’t need to know it. Some things are too much for children to understand so giving them a fake truth would also be acceptable. For instance when a tragedy happens normally children won’t understand whats going on, so parents would have to make an excuse. Rarely on adoption cases parents go on to lie to their children. I do believe you need to not hide your kids from the world.…
Children have a great respect for fairness; ‘it’s not fair’ is a common phrase in the classroom. A way of showing fairness is allowing a child to explain their version of events; again this shows that you are willing to listen. However it is important to be consistent in situations, if two children break the same rule it would be unfair to punish one and not the other, this would result in lack of respect from the children. It would also be unfair if you were to show favouritism, like letting your ‘favourites’ get away with things that you would punish other children for.…
Children should be given ample opportunities to speak. We should always attentively listen to what a child is saying.…
Secondly; we must give children the time and opportunity to communicate. It is important to give children time to think about what has been said to them and if they don’t answer straight away we must be patient and not answer for them (www.earlylearningconsultancy.co.uk). Some children may require us to sounds them out but then we must get them to copy and blend the sounds together whilst giving them time to process what we are telling them.…
When communicating with a young person this is done differently as we would need to adapt our tone of voice, and the words and phrases we use as a young person has a more varied vocabulary. We need to ensure that we allow a young person to vocalise ideas and feelings as they can do this in a greater depth. We can give a young person more complex instructions and they can also appreciate jokes and word play. We can read more complex things with a young person such as poetry or factual books. We can discuss past events allowing them to give detailed accounts with varied expression and emotions.…
Children are often accused of lying. They are apt to lie, that’s true. But sometimes children…