5 Ways to Improve Family Communication
Family communication is most important in our daily life for staying together in harmony and happy family. A poor family communication can bring to the family problem between parents and children and sometime can bring to home broken. Before us facing this problem in our family, we need to flash back and thinking more deeply. Does our family communication is the best and suitable? Did we know our children’s problem? Did they facing any problem in the school? If the answer is not, you are seemed like far away from your children and family and what you should to do is to come out with a new pattern of family communication so you can make an improvement.
Effective and good family communication is main foundation to having a happy family. Good communication in family can ensure that, problem get solved, ideas get heard, feeling expressed and intimacy grows. All these are things every family dream to experience. But, it is not easy as you thought for coming out the effective and good communication. The researchers found that only 30% of secondary and high school students have a positive and good communication among the family. In order to improve family communication, there are 5 ways to learn and practice.
1. Make and find time for conversation. We need to create time for our family conversation because it does not always happen unless we make it. Spend a time for your family not just always sitting in front of your TV with your remote control after dinner or working desk. But, you should to seek time for them specifically. This can be playing games with your kids after dinner or repair the house gate or together wash your car at the weekend. Try shooting some hoops with your child to initiate a conversation. Time also can create at the dining table when eat a family meal together.
2. Listen to the words and feel the feeling. Sometime, it is difficult to feel like what our children are feeling when they are talking the problem with us. This is why we need to pay more attention when we are talking to them and try to understand the body language, their action and tone. Parents must try to understand what children are feeling and facing to. Know that what your child really need is that you realized how they feel and what they want from you to solve the problems they have now. Many times the only thing your child want is a willpower from you.
3. Look to the face. When talking to your children, you should to look to their face and eyes to send a message for them to know that you are really interesting to what they try to tell us. And it also showing to them that you are paying more attention to hearing them and try to find out the solution and care about them.
4. Think before speaking. Thinking before came out the opinion or solution when your children need your help, you also can ask them to think about it together and let them to come out their own ideas or opinion too. Then you can come together and both of you can share the solutions and ideas. Also, when faced with a tough conversation, thinking first before you say it. Decide how you can approach the situation and answers for the questions that might come up as a result.
5. Be approachable. Be approachable when having a communication with your children. This is because “if they think they will get a lecture or be judged every time they bring up an idea or a personal experience, they will shut up.” As a result, they will take their problems to their mom or friend who will listen to them without judgment or lecturing instead. It is also important to take children’s concerns seriously. Do not take it lightly and you need to empathize and listen to their problem or ideas without any condemnation. Then your children are more likely to come to you with issues that are really important.
Improving family communication is a hard work and takes time, but the effort is well worth it. Every family facing the hard times and struggles about it and the family that has a strong foundation of communication will be better able to weather the storms.
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