With children forced to stay at home during lockdown, parents have been placed under a lot of pressure. Not only are they tasked with keeping their children busy while they manage working from home, but they are also now faced with the responsibility of schooling them and maintaining their early childhood development.
Although working from home is difficult and balancing work and time with your children is often challenging, this time also presents many positives for child/parent relationships.
Having open communication channels with your child is crucial to forming a solid, ongoing relationship, one where they feel comfortable to approach you with questions they have as well as feeling comfortable enough to voice their opinions and ideas about the world.
Below are a few of the positive effects open communication with your child can have:
Having regular conversations with your child ensures that they are continually absorbing a wealth of language, improving their sentence structure and vocabulary.
When children regularly express their opinions to their parents, they gradually improve their ability to present their ideas to others – i.e. building self-confidence.
Without a doubt, emotional intelligence is one of the most crucial developmental areas in early childhood development.
When a child is unable to express how they are feeling they become frustrated and may lash out in other ways. If a child can match their emotions to words and express them clearly, they are more likely to resolve their problems through discussion. This will also benefit them later in life when they must manage more complex emotions and life issues.
Open communication is not only beneficial for your child. It also provides you with a greater understanding of who your child is and what their hopes, dreams and fears are.
Parents lead remarkably busy lives, leaving little time to discuss things with their children. Having an open-communication channel makes it easier for parents and their children to communicate even when time is limited.
Children receive instructions both at home and at school – this can be overwhelming at times.
By communicating short, direct instructions at regular intervals you help to develop your child’s ability to digest and process information.
Children also begin to feel more comfortable telling their parents that they do not understand tasks. This leads to an increase in successful task completion which results in an increase in self-confidence.
As your child moves through the key stages of development, their amount of work and competencies change.
Discussing homework and school activities with your child means you can gauge their progress and understand isolate areas where they may need assistance.
When you practice communication skills with your child at home, you help them develop skills that they can then use at school and throughout their life. You help them identify their likes and dislikes which in turn helps them establish and accurately communicate their boundaries.
Our blog is filled with useful, summarised information about early childhood development and how you can help your child succeed.
Open communication is just one of the many things people struggle with. Morals, beliefs and skill development start at home. Help your child develop the right skills that they will use throughout their life.
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