Listening to your children

Published January 1989. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalogWhat do kids have to say? A lot. But many parents think they have nothing to learn from their children. Some even assume they know just what their children are thinking and feeling most of the time.\ud And so instead of listening, they talk. Instead of watching, they ignore. They lecture and preach. They judge and direct. They blame and scold. Only rarely do they just . . . listen. And even when they do, it may be with only one ear