It's very hard when your child doesn't want to talk to you and you want to talk to them, and you want to touch them, you want to hold them.
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Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.
When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to what they say they want or what they say they need.
Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.
I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.