Comments on: WFMW: Really Listening to Your Kids

By: Gotta GROW with it

Gotta GROW with it — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:20:00 +0000

what simple ways to love on and respect our kids. great advice. i found you thru wwfm. love your blog!

By: lily

lily — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:58:00 +0000

What an amazing advice. The best I heard in a long time. I have been racked with guilt because I have been zoning out, and he has been acting up. Thank you so much.

By: Susanne

Susanne — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:49:00 +0000

These are great tips Katrina. I’ll have to put them into practise. My youngest is a chatter box, too. And she’ll just go on forever. It’s so easy to clue her out, but I know that is not fair to her either, because she could be telling me something important right when I happening to be zoning her out.

By: Dianne

Dianne — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:30:00 +0000

What a gift you are giving C., the gift of your presence and listening.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:34:00 +0000

I’ve always done the asking questions thing. But I never thought to look at the color of their eyes. Mine weren’t incessant chatterers, but I still find myself zoning out when they’re recounting some bit of kid-oriented randomness.

Now, how to make that work while we’re in the car driving…?

By: Cheri

Cheri — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:52:00 +0000

I have an 11 year old talker. He’s always been a talker. Sometimes, when my son was little, my husband would ask what I wanted for a special day. All I wanted was quiet – without talking, without noise…

Did I mention we currently home school? So the constant talking isn’t limited to hte summer. Oh no it’s not!

By: Jennifer, Snapshot

Jennifer, Snapshot — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:24:00 +0000

Those are good tips.

I have more trouble now with the meaningless (or repetitive) four-year-old chatter in this house.

Amanda has actually slowed down dramatically. Part of it is that she always has her nose in a book, and part of it is that I think she's become a bit self-conscious of it in general, and this last part I don't like--she isn't compelled to tell me everything anymore. Heading towards her tween years, that's not a good thing.

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:54:00 +0000

My son is a talker too! Today on the way home from a busy day at Sea World he talked non – stop! My girls were exhausted and resting quietly but my son was MR. CHATTERBOX! I think he was so wired from all of the days excitement. I listened for about 15 minutes and then said “OK Mom needs to concentrate to drive, let’s all have a little quiet time.” I felt bad but my brain started to hurt! Thanks for the suggestions! Elizabeth