'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
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I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.
We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.
The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.
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