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FLOOR TIME: Promoting Better Communication Skills

As you become more proficient in your role as “parent therapist extraordinaire” and your child is becoming more attentive, you’ll eventually want to move on to the next goal. The second goal in these floor time play sessions is to improve your child’s ability to communicate effectively. (This floor time blog is the third in a series of five, teaching parents how to be their child’s own play therapist. If you haven’t read my introductory floor time blog, click here.) During your 20-30 minute floor time play sessions, your child should now be demonstrating signs of personal interest and attention … Continue reading →

Tips To Help Kids With ADHD Communicate

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Some children seem to make friends quite naturally, without even having to think about it. This isn’t usually the case with children who have a special need that comes with symptoms that tend to impact social skills. This is true with many children who have ADHD. Fortunately, there are some tips that can help make it easier for your child to effectively communicate with other children, and perhaps make a few friends in the process. Children, (and adults), who have ADHD tend to have difficulty interacting appropriately with their peers when a conversation is taking place. Impulsiveness is one of … Continue reading →

Sharing a Specific Message

While writing earlier today about how dissent and debate can create energy and interest around our businesses, I also started thinking about how there are times when we really need to share a specific message—we have either a marketing message or a piece of information that we need to get out to our customers and clients and we need to make sure that it is clear, obvious and delivered to the people who need to hear it. Sharing a specific message can be challenging unless we know how to keep it clear and simple. It is important when you have … Continue reading →

Show an Interest in What People Do and Say

We periodically talk about different communication techniques tips for building relationships with prospects, clients, customers and colleagues here in the Home Business blog. After all, even if your small business has you interacting with only a few people, how you interact is still going to be crucial. A key communication technique that you can apply to any area of your life is to show a genuine interest in what others do and say. You notice that I stuck the word “genuine” in there? That means that people can tell the difference between someone who is actually listening to what they … Continue reading →

Child Using Inappropriate Tone of Voice? Try Not Responding

One of the big issues for parents is dealing with wining, screaming, and rude demands that come from our children. Some of these “tones of voice” can be so aggravating and annoying, it makes us want to bark or scream back. Believe it or not, the best way to change a child’s tendency to use such annoying ways of speaking and communicating is to NOT pay attention when they do… Now, I am not advocating blatantly ignoring a child who is whining or being obnoxious–but not responding or giving in is an incredibly effective technique. You can give the child … Continue reading →

Take Time to Just Observe

As parents, I think we often feel like we need to be “parenting” all the time–we need to be on, involved, wise, and “in charge” of what is going on in our families and with our children. In reality, it is often helpful just to take a back seat and observe. You can learn a great deal about your child just by sitting back once in a while and watching what is going on. Observation is a skill–it is as much a part of communication and understanding as verbal expression and listening are. I can’t tell you how many times … Continue reading →

What To DO When Your Kids Zone Out

It’s amazing how kids can become so wrapped up in what they are doing that they literally tune out everything else that’s happening around them. I’ve noticed lately that Tyler spends a lot of time in fantasy play and when he’s engaged there’s no talking to him. Yes, sometimes he will respond with an automatic answer but technically, he didn’t hear me because he was wrapped up in what he was doing. Although it can be a bit frustrating, this type of behavior is normal. Many times I have remarked to Tyler that talking to him is like talking to … Continue reading →

Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say

Writers are often told to show, don’t tell. In the world of parenting when communicating with our kids we should tell, don’t ask. In the book, What Did I Just Say!?!, by Denis Donovan and Deborah McIntyre, parents are encouraged to say what you mean and mean what you say. If you are trying to get your toddler to come and sit down next to you, for example, you shouldn’t ask if he wants to come and sit next to you, you should tell him to come and sit down. When I noticed this book in the library I grabbed … Continue reading →

Words You Should Use Every Day With Your Kids

In an earlie r blog,I wrote how parents should strive to always select appropriate words when communicating with their kids. Did you know there are certain words we should use with our kids every day? There are, according to Dr. Vera Lane and Dr. Dorothy Molyneaux, specialists in child-language development and family communication. Parents should strive to use the following phrases with their kids at least once a day. Thank you – Let’s kids know you appreciate their attempts to help others. Tell me more– Shows your kids you are interested in what they are talking about. You can do … Continue reading →

Conversing With Our Kids

Words have the power to heal or to hurt. The words we choose to utter have a profound effect on the recipient and on the sender. We should always strive to speak in positive terms. This is especially true of the words we speak to our kids. Not only words that we might throw out in anger but also words we use in our everyday conversation. I’m reading a book called Who Moved My BlackBerry? It’s a satirical look at the corporate world told entirely in a series of email and text messages. I thought it might be fun to … Continue reading →