Parenting Todays Teens Radio
  • Listening Begets Listening (2-15-2010)

     

    PODCAST SCRIPT:

    There is a vital link between the amount of time you spend listening to your teenager and their willingness to listen to you in return.

    A friend told me this story. He said, “My son was upset about something and wanted to talk it about it at that very moment. But he caught me in the middle of something. So I only half listened, and made no eye contact. When I was finished, I went back to talk to him… but he only half listened, and wouldn’t make eye contact. I asked why and he said ‘Why should I do that for you, when you didn’t for me.’”

    The dad apologized and learned to listen to be a better listener, thereby assuring that his teen would do the same.


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