Parenting

Effective communication techniques

• Chat with your child causally as friends

  Motivate your children to share with you by smile and have a sense of humour.

• Positively encourage your child after he/she has failed

  Take the initiative of starting a conversation with your child and say: “Yet the exam result did not meet your expectations, but one failure dose not mean failure forever, you can still reach success. Keep trying!”

• Share your past experience

  The difficulties you have overcome in the past could be a good example for the child: “I was in the same situation, but I finally…” and “Don’t worry, take one step at a time, share with me your thoughts and we could figure it out.”

• Share your personal feelings and needs towards your child

  Express yourselves with words like angry, sad, frustrated, worried, sorry, anxious, nervous, excited……

  Often help children to express themselves by building an emotional vocabulary.

• Motivate children to have effective and realistic goal-setting

  “Not necessarily to compare with others”, “focus on your strength and self improvement” and “try your best and be optimistic”.

• Listen to your children

  Listen and understand children’s needs and perspective before you provide advice to them.

• Be grateful and count the blessings daily

  To reflect good things in lives together with your children, be thankful for family, friends, good health and wisdom……

  Life is beautiful.

Student Health Service, Department of Health
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