We are going to teach children to listen to others

Why children have a hard time listening

Listening to others requires two important things: time and interest. And children are by nature impatient. They are easily distracted. It's not that they do not want to listen to others. It is that if they lose interest, they will stop listening. Keep in mind that very young children do not handle all the vocabulary with which adults speak. If they do not understand what they hear, they will stop attending.

5 Tips to teach children to listen to others

We have to capture their interest and learn to communicate with them with short and direct phrases. Children under 3 years of age do not maintain attention for long. Hence, the stories that are directed to them are short and with many drawings.

1. Use the gestures to get their attention. Maybe they do not understand a word, but if you accompany it with some movement or expression of the face, it will continue listening.
2. Do not let your child interrupt you in the middle of an important conversation. If you are talking on the phone and claiming insistently, explain that now he can not talk to you, that he has to wait for you to finish speaking. You will know that communication involves knowing how to wait and respect a turn.
3. Avoid distractions. If you talk to your child while watching a story, or with the television on, or when he is playing, he will most likely ignore you. If you want me to listen to you, make sure you have heard what you are saying. Add at the end of a 'have you understood me?' Or, 'let's see, what did I say?' This way you make sure that your son has paid attention.
4. Look into his eyes when you talk to him. Make me look at you. He will know that you are telling him something important and he will continue to listen.
5. Use games that enhance the learning of listening. For example, the classic 'Escacharrado Phone', where you have to listen to a question and answer it to the next person in your ear, then compose an absurd sentence. You also have toys with sounds that the child should locate. For that, he demands that he be concentrated and listen.
   As your child grows older, your child will stand the explanations longer. It's a matter of patience. Little by little he will understand that listening is an important part of communication.