A silence
into which a parent listens is a powerful form of communication
and one
that we struggle to implement.
Into an
open, safe and tolerant silence children will open up allowing the adults
who wait a window into their lives.
Instead
we ask questions that we know that answer to.
We speak
over them and they dismiss the words that they do give us.
And we
are surprised that by the time they are teenagers they have stopped talking to
us.
Be mindful in your parenting of the amount of time you spend talking and the silences that you create for your children to talk to you in.
Grandma Snyder
©2013-2015 twosnydergirls
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