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It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes more at Wikipedia

Treatment Success Rate
| Top 5 Communities | ||
| Condition | Members | Success |
| Parenting Big Kids (5-8) | 488 |
93% |
| Parenting 'Tweens (9-12) | 3 |
100% |
| Bipolar Disorder | 3 |
100% |
| Self-Injury | 3 |
100% |
| Breakups & Divorce | 3 |
100% |
Overall, 94% (547
Members)
find Listening helpful


Listening Reviews
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She wants to be acknowledged as an intelligent person with her own opinion.
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We've been working on trying to get her to talk about her feelings more. When she gets in trouble, I try to talk about it with her, and it's hard sometimes because she only sees that she's in trouble, and she tends to shut down and not talk.
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Kids love to be heard and respected. I should do it more often...
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I'm having to learn to listen more and talk less.
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i really have to listen to all my kids or you cant help them.
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After a meltdown with my son, I give him a time out in his room so he can calm down (and sometimes me also) then I will go in and sit and camly discuss the situation with him.
Working / Worked
Works with my soon to be 8 yearold...she just needs to talk and write to get everything out...
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Works with my soon to be 8 yearold...she just needs to talk and write to get everything out...
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we have really good communication
Working / Worked
I do listen to what he says and try to work with it.
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Discussions
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My husband had the same problem. Our oldest listened to me and not him. He would come up with a ridiculous punishment when he was mad an rescind it ... [More] -
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Hi, there have been numerous posts recently about discipline, etc. in this community. I'm cutting and pasting my response to another concerned paren... [More] -
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Yup.. totally Normal.. we call it "selective deafness", mention something like "Candy" and they are very attentive. M66 [More] -
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Being a mother of 5 children... I would say it's normal. Totally normal. [More] -
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that's the definition of children [More]





