ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at effective strategies when listening. It explains how practitioners can listen and communicate with children, supporting their individual needs through using different communication methods. Practitioners need to listen to children and provide opportunities that allow the voice of the child through many activities and experiences that children take part in. Children express themselves in many ways and there are a ‘hundred languages of children’. An effective listener understands that children express their voice through many channels. The area of expressive art and design gives a child a voice. Children have so many pressures on them to do well, to succeed and to gain the best grades. Along with this, children have the added stress and anxiety about growing up. Children and family yoga classes focus on partner work, group work and extending the act of human connection beyond the comfort of our family units to others around us.
