Aman, I have renewed the
car insurance.
Great Anju, I am done
with our joint policy and
Mamma, where is my bat.
My bat my bat….Rakshit kept singing the song my bat unless Anju found his bat
from his shelf.
Anju, you mentioned your
cousin visit to city, when was it?
It’s next month second
week Aman!
Okay, so lets plan outing
on long weekend…
Papa, why don’t you ball
and I bat.
Yes Rakshit, first let me
finish…
Papa, please come come…..
Aman couldn’t book the
tickets neither was able to complete his sentence and Anju’s look made it clear
that unless they listened to Rakshit, he will keep on interrupting in conversations.
This kind of scenario is
common in family, where children interrupt in daily or important conversations.
Our ninth parenting topic is Interruption, and reasons behind it.
Parents talk and
immediately child interrupts from no where and the whole flow of conversation
fazes away. Question is how to deal with such situations.
Firstly, make kids
understand that these are elderly conversations and their participation is not
required. Doing so you are ensuring their views are not needed and they may do
something more important be it art & craft, playing with siblings or
building blocks.
Secondly, make them
understand that for any reason they need to ask or inform you in middle of
conversation, use the word excuse me and wait till they count 1 to 10. Yes I
say 10 because kids are smarter and count in the speed of bullet train.
Thirdly, involve your
kids in loop of conversation if required, ask them their views before hand and
later you take your decisions. For example parents can ask them holiday place
either beach/hills, then plan your holiday according to their choice.
In this manner both are
on happy note.
There is also other side
of interruptions, but that we will look in coming posts in this month.
Sharing this post with AtoZ Challenge 2018, Day 9 - Letter I - I for Iterruption.
This month we are taking AtoZChallenge with theme #ParentingIntangibleWonder, you can read all our posts of this theme here.
Blogchatter is playing a motivator for us in this challenge.
@Sonal
I think you have a very good point with the 'loops of conversation' thing - ensure the conversation reaches a conclusion. That can also be by enforced time together away from the tv and social media (a dinner table ideally)
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Yes Roshan every conversation should end with a definite conclusion...and that is two way I mean it applies to parents also to not interrupt a child when they want to express something. Dinner time is probably the best idea.
DeleteOh! Interruption and parenting go hand in hand. Its hard to make them understand but good tips to tackle this situation.
ReplyDeleteYes Deepa kids do take some time to learn but with patience parents can teach them values.
DeleteVery informative, keep posting such good articles, it really helps to know about things.
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