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'How to help my child talk'


When I am asked how can I help my child talk? This can relate to talking about their feelings to building relationships with other children.

Children need to feel they are not vulnerable and are confident within themselves first. The first technique I suggest is to:

1. Teach them how to let go

When I say 'let go' I mean to work out build up stress from the day / week or even a situation. Children are still learning how to put words together to describe their feelings. They base their conversations on what is 'accepted' or 'rejected' by mom and dad. I always ask parents to never guess what their child has created with their art pieces. When a mom says; 'What is that?' The impact that is left behind is extremely damaging. Their child starts to feel whatever they do is not good enough for their parent and can cause reactive behaviour.

Activities to let go:

- Fast rides (swinging / sliding / running / chasing / playing catches / rolling down a hill)

- Jumping activities (trampoline / jumping into a swimming pool / diving)

- Dancing activities (street dance / drama / zumba)

- Vocal activities (singing / karaoke)

- Outdoor activities (sports of any kind)

You will be able to measure your child's level of frustration by how they are willing to try activities they have never tried before.

I took some children with me to an activity park called Knock Hatch. It has amazing activities from laser quest, trampolines, go karts to water slides. Some children were very scared to go on the trampoline as it was very high for them. Instead of me encouraging them to try it, I told them I was going because I wanted to have fun. After seeing how I was managing to enjoy myself, they wanted to have a try and found they loved it! What was interesting was the children said to me that because they had faced their fears, I had to do something I would of never done before. This was the drop water slide!!!! Well!! How can I preach if I do not practise?

I did it! It was the most scariest thing to do in my life - but I knew if I did not do it, how could I get these children to speak to me openly about their feelings?

2. Don't force them to speak

Do what you ask them to do. As mentioned above, instead of asking them to let go or speak about their feelings - do activities that will see how you are working or processing the activity. They out of curiosity will automatically join in.

3. Be as creative where ever possible

I always explain that the 'arts' is not about just drawing or painting, singing or dancing. It builds life skills to think and solve. Never expect your children to do the work, if you are not setting an example


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