Comments on: 7 Eye-opening Reasons Your Child Isn’t Listening (and what to do about it) https://parentswithconfidence.com/how-to-get-your-child-listening/ Raising emotionally healthy children who will live their BEST life.. Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:25:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: ML https://parentswithconfidence.com/how-to-get-your-child-listening/#comment-10765 Sun, 08 Aug 2021 15:59:16 +0000 https://parentswithconfidence.com/?p=5908#comment-10765 Have you considered the possibility that the child is NOT ABLE to listen at all and it is has nothing to do with will or the ability to hear? When a sound is made, 1) it enters to the ear, 2) goes to the emotion part of the brain and 3) to the conscious part of the brain. In a lot of people (children and adults), the third steps doesn’t happen many of times and it is not something they can prevent or control. They can’t actually listen. Do the effort of making the child conscious of you first (eye contact with, reacting to you) and then talk, and check if that makes a difference.

]]> By: Angela Pruess https://parentswithconfidence.com/how-to-get-your-child-listening/#comment-9754 Thu, 20 May 2021 14:18:33 +0000 https://parentswithconfidence.com/?p=5908#comment-9754 In reply to Veronika Yurina.

Yes, love this! A Great point to add to the conversation:)

]]> By: Veronika Yurina https://parentswithconfidence.com/how-to-get-your-child-listening/#comment-8639 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:05:34 +0000 https://parentswithconfidence.com/?p=5908#comment-8639 A very insightful post! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Angela

Through my 6-years parenting experience I realized that eye contact is very important in making kids listen. Sometimes, my daughter is so deeply emerged in playing that she doesn’t even hear me until I ask her to look straight into my eyes.
When my requests to brush teeth/eat lunch/go home are ignored, I say “You’ve got 5 more minutes, then we go”. So far, this kind of compromise worked for us 🙂

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