Parent and Child
How should you react when your child spills a glass of milk? What should you say when your child comes home with a bad report card? This article tells us how to deal with such problems.Understanding children, encouraging them, and guiding them plays a significant role in moulding their character. Very often your ignorance results in unwelcome consequences. How should you react when your child spills a glass of milk? What should you say when your child comes home with a bad report card? 'Parent and Child' shows us how to deal with such problems. Talking with children is a unique art. Children are seldom naive in their communications. Their coded messages are often in a code, that requires deciphering. On his first visit to school, while mother was still with him, John, age seven, looked over the paintings on the notice board and inquired: "Who drew these ugly pictures?" embarrassed, mother told him: "It's not nice to call the pictures ugly when they are so pretty." The teacher, who understood the meaning of the question, smiled and said: "In this school you don't have to paint pretty pictures." A big smile appeared on John's face, he had the answer to his hidden question: "What happens to a boy who doesn't paint
Mother : You wanted very much to go on this outing? Thus it can be seen that the intellectual progress and the character development of a child depend to a large degree on the common sense of his parents, to judge accurately on a situation and then take action as needs be. When a child is buffeted by strong emotions, he will not listen to anyone. He will not accept advice or consolation or constructive criticism. He only wants to be understood. He wants the people around him to understand what is going on inside himself at that particular moment. An interested observer who overhears a conversation between a parent and a child will note with surprise how little each listens to the other. Mother : You had everything ready and then the rain came.
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