kids are mostly saying that " when I tell…
Page 25 keyword parenting kids are mostly saying that " when I tell you something, sometimes all I need is for you to be there. Stop racing through the day, leave whatever it is you're doing at that moment, and just listen. When you listen to me correctly, when you really understand me and manage to see smell and feel what I experienced, without criticism or judgment, without words of wisdom, just by asking questions and helping me figure out what really happened to me there, how I felt then I feel for a moment that we're close.
— from Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting) · My everything by einat Nathan
In the book
And know that the most powerful gift to a child's self-esteem is to let them see your own: children watch a parent's unhappiness and quietly conclude it must somehow be their fault, so modeling a steady, healthy self-regard is itself an act of love. Above all, listen. When you truly stop and hear a child — without rushing, without judging, without leaping in to fix — you tell them that what they feel is real and that their voice matters; much of what a child needs is simply for you to stop racing through the day and be there. At the family table, your full attention is itself a form of hospitality. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)