3a) I want to be a better communicator like my boyfriend. Whenever we are having a conversation he always pays full attention to what I am saying and he makes direct eye contact and repeats what I said from time to time to let me know that he is listening. 4. What context or setting is required for you to achieve your goal? For example, "I will talk with my friends in private, distraction-free settings."
Communication is an important skill for forming and maintaining relationships. In both professional and personal relationships listening, empathizing, evaluating, problem solving and learning to interpret verbal and non verbal clues are much needed skills in order to maintain and form these relationships. When I listened to my niece and what her fears were I was able to evaluate the situation and read her verbal and non verbal clues which allowed me to empathize with her and formulate a plan of action to help allieviate her fears. I saw that she was nervous so I sat with her, held her hand and talked to her about what was going on. I also reassured her by explaining what was happening and letting her know what was next.
Schools and Society: Communication with Families 1 I believe the teacher staying late at least once a week shows an understanding to parents, not everyone works the same shifts or can be available while their children are at school. Having a handout for parents to look over was very insightful of the teacher. It will most likely cover all or most of the information given at this meeting and gives parents a chance to follow along with their handout. Also, they can take the handout home with them, giving them more time to come up with any questions that they may have regarding the material. It was sensitive of the teacher to consider any language barrier by having translators present at this speech.
Loitering Parents How They Affect Their Children Joan Acocella brings the controversial topic of helicopter parenting to light in her article “The Child Trap: The Rise of Over Parenting.” Acocella gives good insight into the minds of parents, speaking about those who want their kids to succeed, but go about it in a suffocating way. One might even say she exemplifies how many guardians are trying to make up for their shortcomings. Say a parent felt ignored or snubbed as a child. Maybe their parents didn’t have the means to enroll their child in various different extracurricular activities, such as little league baseball, or horseback riding. This may make them grow into caretakers who are a little more aggressive when it comes to such activities that they may have missed out on.
Mrs. Brandt talked about her concern of my comprehending level not increasing at the same rate as my classmates. She told them she had been working with me one on one, but that I needed more practice and more one on one time that she could not provide. She suggested that my parents take me to a tutor or to Sylvan Learning Center. Mrs. Brandt stressed that comprehending was a very important skill to have and that if I did not acquire the skill I would struggle with literature the rest of my life. My parents came home that night and told me what Mrs. Brandt’s concern was.
11 Apr. 2012. . Glancy, Gary. New York Times [Hendersonville] 28 Mar. 2012: n. pag.
His sister sometimes annoys him but most of the time they get along. He claims in some cases his parents might be right about some things and decisions but he doesn’t like people telling him what to do, he likes to think on his own and when he gets stuck he will ask his parents. Usually when he gets into a disagreement with his parents, they talk to him and with reasoning they make him agree. I asked him if he was in trouble who would he go to besides his immediate family, he said it depends on what kind of trouble? If it was a big trouble I would go to my aunts and uncles, if it was something I did wrong and I got in trouble with my parents I would talk to my friends or cousins.
The point is to make sure that children are happy all the time and not asking ourselves questions. When there is no understanding what so ever between two parents, there is always an argument resulting on violent words and children will learn them from their parents and they will grow up with the habit of being aggressive to other people. Psychologists are just beginning to provide reliable information about the effects of divorce on children. There are a number of important factors. Research shows that the effects depend on the age of the child at the time of divorce.
Children usually are not involved in the discussion of divorce by the parents. Between divorcing parents there are some effects of the children that need to be discussed including how to keep good communication between parents after the separation, transportation of the children, deciding parenting time, how to handle situations where the children might try and turn each parent against the other, how the discipline of the children will be handled and the emotional instability that divorce brings. It is not uncommon in divorced families for the parents to try to communicate to one another through the children. Children are told “tell your Mom this” or “tell your Dad that.” The parents do not realize that poor communication and using the children to speak for them often causes the child to be afraid to express any feelings at all. Children need to be able to communicate and express their feelings and the parents need to have an open line of communication with each other for their children, or they can expect emotional problems to arise such as depression or anger.