What do you do when your kids don’t listen?
Do you feel like your kids don’t hear a word you’re saying? Does it make you insane?
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See “Raising Children Compassionately
by Marshall Rosenberg:http://www.naturalchild.org/marshall_rosenberg/rcc.html .
“I’m pleased with how people can be helped to see the limitations of any kind of punishment, if they’ll simply ask themselves two questions.
“Question number one: What do you want the child to do differently? If we ask only that question, it can certainly seem that punishment sometimes works, because certainly through the threat of punishment or application of punishment, we can at times influence a child to do what we would like the child to do.
“However, when we add a second question, it has been my experience that parents see that punishment never works. The second question is: What do we want the child’s reasons to be for acting as we would like them to act? It’s that question that helps us to see that punishment not only doesn’t work, but it gets in the way of our children doing things for reasons that we would like them to do them.”
As Jan Hunt says, “Children behave as well as they are treated.”
I have a four year old son. He is having alot of trouble listening at pre-school. The teachers pull me aside at least three out of five days of the week to tell me that he is not listening. This makes me feel like he is a problem in class. They tell me that he is where he should be though as far as learning. I asked his pediatrician and they say it is normal at his age. I am really at a loss as he doesn’t listen well at home either unless his brother is already in bed. I think it might be for attention sometimes.