Most people read and study more for an exam like to take the driving license, than they do for becoming a parent. Reading and finding out more about the subject of “communication with your child”, will may help you become a better parent for your child. A well informed parent is more prepared to offer his child’s start to succeed in life. Communication between people is a very important subject, so children can benefit greatly if their parents are communicative. Expressing the feelings is essential in relationships, especially in the parent-child relationship. If you do not have children yet, these 10 tips can help you if you live near them.

1. Encourage your child to tell you everything he has on his soul and everything he has on his mind. You will succeed if the discussion start is one of his favorite domains: favorite food, toys, movies, cartoons, video games, sport, etc.
2. Be reasonable with your child. Parents often make the mistake of educating their children when they express their feelings. For example, the child says “I hate my nose” and the father responds “But you have a perfect nose”, in this way, the child is left alone with his problem, which it might become worse over time.
3. Teach your child to be patient and to not interrupt your conversation. A simple technique is to teach your child to touch your hand or your shoulder when they have something to say and wait until you finish the conversation started with another person. Usually the children who interrupt their parents during a discussion, lose the chance to learn about self-control and they will become spoiled because they are used to be answered immediately and therefore they will find it very natural to interrupt anyone, anytime.
4. When you have a conversation with your child, get to their level of height because in this way, the conversation will be more fluent because it is an equal level between you two (a higher one may lead to resistance sometimes).
5. Play with your child whenever you have the opportunity. For example, hide a penny in your hand and ask him to guess in which hand is hidden. These games may seem insignificant, but in communicating with your child, even the small details matters.
6. Play with your child’s toys too because play is the children’s language. If you do this, you will create a strong bond and he will begin to trust you.
7. Invent or read small stories to your child. This will help your child to establish a strong link for learning life’s lessons.
8. Keep the promises you make to your child. Children are often fooled by some promises which are not true. Ironically, adults treat the promises made to children more lightly than the promises they made to other persons.
9. “Sacrifice” your time to interact with your children and focus 100% on them – most parents do not bother to interact with children and this can lead to serious consequences in the future.
10. Develop your child’s imagination by asking questions like : “How do you think we could make the dog’s cage?” rather than to give them immediately the correct answer. Through these questions, the child has the opportunity to find solution and this will help him very much in the future.