Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.
Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
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.
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.