Today, I am going to talk about a subject that is very dear to my heart, communication with children. As I was growing up, I very rarely spoke with my parents, in other words they hardly communicated with me. They thought that by providing me with all the things I needed would be sufficient. Don”t get me wrong, I have wonderful parents but they lacked communication skills.
When I got married and decided to have children of my own, I promised myself that I would make every effort to communicate often and openly with my children. I had my first child, my son things were going great but as I had my second child the communication lines started to deteriorate between my son and I. I was very busy trying to take care of my daughter. She was born with very severe asthma and all through her childhood was spent with doctors and in the hospital emergency room. I also started to work when my daughter was in 1st grade and that is when things at home started going very down hill. Now that my son is an adult and my daughter is in college, I am trying to make up for lost time.
I have realized how important it is to communicate. Every day I try a bit harder. My relationship with my children has grown and we have become very close in the past few years. Parents do not realize how important it is to communicate with our children, we get so caught up in our daily routine of getting them ready in the morning, getting them to school or the babysitter, getting to work, helping with homework and cooking dinner that we forget to even ask our children how was their day. A piece of advise, take the time to talk with your child each day and make it up to listen to what they have to say.
photo credit: Frédéric de Villamil
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