ABSTRACT
One of the home practices for the past week was to check on how much needless talking you are still doing. What did you discover? Hopefully, you found you have started changing in this area. Many parents cause their children to resort to becoming “Parent Deaf in self defense or defiance. Our “talk, talk, talking” does have mostly good intentions, but the results are usually far from good. Look at Section P-92, Times Not To Talk, and Section P-93, Acceptable Talk. A parent has been known to become so fearful about talking that he/she is hardly talking at all, so we have tried to show in more detail what is meant. Especially be aware of when you do want to be talking or interacting with your children. To be talking at these times and in these ways is really as vital as being silent, when that is called for by the situation. The second home practice was to plan some family fun. Did that happen? Fun times together as a family along with family projects help your child to feel like he/she really belongs to the family unit, that he/she is not trying to face this world today all by himself/herself, that he/she is a part of this important group—a family. This greatly contributes to a child’s self-assurance and ability to achieve. It doesn’t matter what size the family is or who makes up the family so much as that they do these kinds of things together regularly.
