24/09/2023
“Are you even listening to what I’m saying?” 🤦🏼♀️ Something we’ve all said or thought at some point when speaking to children. We look at their body language and their facial expressions and possibly their lack of response and assume that they’re definitely not listening! I experienced this recently with a teen client, it felt like their lack of engagement, the endless “I don’t knows” 🤷🏼♀️ and their demeanour pointed to them not being interested in the work we were doing. I could not have been more wrong! 🙈 A week later I hear from their parent who tells me their child thoroughly enjoyed the session and they’d had a great week at school as a result 🥳 So the lesson here is 🤓: keep on providing your child and teen with those positive words of encouragement, keep telling them that you are proud and they are loved 🥰 Remind them that they can always talk to you 💬 Your words are not a waste, you’re not wasting your breath, your child is just processing and is not always going to gush with gratitude and thank you for your inspirational words, however, they may well do in years to come 🎉 You are being listened to - keep doing what you’re doing, it’ll be worth it💙😊
