Dear Parents, Connect With Your Children Before You Correct Them
Dear parents, hear this: You don’t have the right to correct a child that you have not connected with!
In his best-selling book, “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, John C. Maxwell explains the great benefits of connecting over-communicating. Audiences respond most to how a communicator makes them feel rather than to what a communicator has to say.
Dear parents, hear this: You don’t have the right to correct a child that you have not connected with! Do you wonder why you correct your children many times without significant results? The missing link is connection! Modern-day parenting has evolved beyond excessive monitoring and control.
Ignacio Estrada once said, “If a child can’t learn the way we teach maybe we should teach the way they learn”. Children learn well when we connect with them than when we correct them. In fact, they take correction more to heart with someone they are more connected to.
Many parents do more of manipulating and controlling their wards instead of connecting with them. If children were actually designed to be manipulated or controlled, they would have come with remote…
