12.Communication between parents and their children
부모와 자녀 간의 의사소통
Communication between parents and their children is very important in raising their children to live safely, healthy, and happily.
Ask, Talk, and Listen are the keys to a successful conversation.
Ask about the interpersonal relationship between your child and his or her friends, your child, and his or her peers, or with someone else.
In particular, parents guide their children through parent-child conversation so that the children do not go wrong with wrong information obtained from the Internet and others.
Find out if he or she is bullying or being bullied.
Listen to your children and listen to them.
Listen to your child’s trivial words and talk to him or her often, and if children have any problems, solve them and raise them with love.
Source: American Academy Pediatrics (This poster is a grant received from CDC, produced at the American Academy of Pediatrics and is being used for parent education. Translated by me)
Definition of Communication
The conversation is a way for at least two people to share and exchange each other’s thoughts, feelings, ideas, opinions, and information using language, letters, signs, and gestures (physical language).
Why parent-child conversation Is the necessary-an example of a conversation
A few years ago, a 13-year-old adolescent girl who had been trying to commit suicide after taking a lot of Tylenol was treated by me in a hospital emergency room.
There was no doubt that the girl was a pretty, smart adolescent girl with a plump body and a clear feature.
Her face was full of melancholy.
“I’m so annoyed to study at school, follow the teacher’s words, or hear my friends pretend, but my mom and dad told me to study, study, stay at home, and do not go anywhere in the night. They didn’t understand me at all, they just bothered me. I just wanted to die, so I took the medicine,” she said to me.
The girl also told me that “my boyfriend abandoned me and I was very upset because he liked one of girls in my classmates.”
The two parents are middle-aged in their 40s. Her father was a university professor, and her mother was a trusted local lawyer.
They were very embarrassed and wept. “I allowed Jennifer to do whatever she wanted to do.
I bought for her everything that she wanted to have, but I can’t understand why she tried to commit suicide. Before puberty came, the three of us sat down and talked a lot.
The three of us go on a trip together and go to the camp.
About a year ago, she’s the same girl, we’ve been living as we are.
As we are chased by a busy life, the three of us do not have an hour a week to sit down and chat recently.
So can it be?
I have no idea that she is suffering from such a severe adolescent illness.”
She closed my speech.
“Study hard, get a job, get chased by work-life, volunteer at the church, do this and that. As the years pass very fast by, children are born and in the blink of an eye they grow up, they became in puberty state and they were growing as adolescent children and become into young people. They went to college these days.
On the one hand, it is fun to see children who grow up quickly and independently leave their parents in such a short period of time without knowing it. But sometimes I get depressed and afraid.
Adolescent children worry a lot unknowingly about having problems and conflicts that arise in themselves or in adolescent society.
Sharing and exchanging thoughts, feelings, ideas, opinions, and information that adolescents and parents have with each other through conversation can make it easier to understand and resolve misunderstandings that may arise between parents and adolescents.
Parents can help and solve their adolescent problems thru parent-adolescent communication.
You can prevent problems from occurring in your adolescent children in advance.
It should be noted that almost all adolescent children can develop “puberty problems” (“puberty disease”).
Parents should communicate with their adolescent children about the right puberty issues at the right time, address them, and prevent them from occurring.
Picture 80. “I love you.” At Buyeo Public Park, the name of the sculptor is unknown
Copyright ⓒ 2012 John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP
Photo 81. Newborns and infants communicate their feelings and intentions with their parents through crying language. They also communicate with their parents by expressing their intentions through physical language. Their crying is language. Crying is a common language with the country, the race, the age, or individual difference.
Copyright ⓒ 2012 John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP.
Photo 82. Help me.
I don’t want to sit here alone. Mom and Dad help me. Newborns, infants, school-age children, and the adolescents communicate by expressing their intentions in either crying words or in physical language. Their crying is a kind of language. Parents should listen and listen to their words.
Copyright ⓒ 2012 John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP.
Parent-child conversation
When talking with your children before to become puberty, or with your adolescent children, it’s better to set aside a time for conversation and talk to them at that time.
Of course, you can use the opportunity that arises from time to time to talk about a topic.
Even when parents need to talk to their adolescent children, set a conversation time to talk to, if possible, and talk at that time.
As parents think, not all children and young children are able to properly express their opinions or feelings in words.
Nevertheless, many parents hope that their adolescent children’s thoughts, feelings, and problems will be maturely expressed and communicated appropriately to parents through parent-child dialogue and communication.
The necessity to communicate between parents and children through conversation and articles on how to communicate can be read frequently in the media such as newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. Adolescent children can learn how to communicate through public media such as TV, the Internet, the iPad and so on. However, most of the methods of communication between parents and children obtained through public media are too formal. Sometimes some communication methods are not applicable to the present life of adolescent children.
The conversation is absolutely necessary even in everyday life.
So, there is also a saying, “Conversation is food.”
Dialogue between parents and children is a necessity for parenting.
Nevertheless, elementary, middle, and high schools do not teach students a very basic way to communicate.
In addition, neither the university nor the liberal arts subjects were taught to students.
There are few opportunities to learn fundamentally necessary communication methods.
For one reason or another, most parents, including myself, raise their children without knowing how to properly communicate with them.
In addition, the generational gap between children and parents, parents may not understand their child’s problems during conversations between parents and children, and parents and children may misunderstand each other during conversation. Problems can arise frequently during parent-child conversations.
So, when can parents start talking with their children?
Mom and Dad have to start talking to the fetus growing in the mom’s womb.
You also have to talk to your newborn baby at birth.
Today, there are many cases where a father helps his wife who is delivering at a delivery table in the hospital.
When a baby is born, the dad helps the childbirth next to the giving birth wife, and is very important in making parent-child loving bonding withholding the blood-red newborn baby and “ I love you, baby at the delivery room’’
You have to say “I love you” while holding your newborn baby in the delivery.
This kind of parent-child love bonding is perhaps the most important love in the entire child-raising process.
Imagine that when your beloved child was born, his father was doing what, where but not seeing the baby.
The newborn baby, who was just waiting to see his father and mom or her father or mom, replied to his dad and his mom in physical language and crying language with a glance, saying “I love you guy too”.
We pediatricians can often see this beautiful birthing room conversation between his father, mom and the just born newborn baby.
There are many times when a newborn baby simply ignores talking with his father or mother in this physical language.
When a baby is born, all fathers should be waiting next to the giving birth wife, and then how about deciding a this kind of delivery method at a nationwide level to form a bond between the newborn baby and the parents in the birthing room.
The relationship between parents and children who live every day by communicating with their children in newborns, infancy, school age, and puberty adolescents frequently to exchange love and receive each other is truly beautiful.
While children grow up and live independently from their parents, it is very beautiful that children and parents exchange love with each other through frequent conversations, and continue to live in a love-bonding relationship between parents and children.
Even after the children have grown up and left their parents, it is also very beautiful to solve problems between parents and children through dialogue and share the joys and sorrows that can occur between parents and children through casual daily lives.
It will be easy to understand. That conversation is essential to raising healthy and productive children.
“When parents communicate with their children, there are many methods of communication between parents and children that say, “Children and parents should talk like this.” However, the communication method cannot be fixed.
Depending on the child’s age, intelligence, maturity, time and place, and the subject of the conversation, the conversation method should be strictly different.
Parents should never communicate with their children in an authoritative manner and in strict words and actions.
Depending on the time, place, and situation, parents must talk from the standpoint of a guardian, from the standpoint of their children’s parents, sometimes from the standpoint of their child’s best friend, or from the standpoint of their peers.
Before the conversation begins, the message that parents truly love their children without condition should be given.
It is important for parents to start a conversation by delivering good eye contact love, appropriate physical contact love, and focused attention love, and care to their children if possible.
Then, conversations between parents and children begin and proceed easily.
Photo 83. Even when feeding artificial nutrition, the baby is held fondly softly to give physical contact love and feed while having a conversation.
When talking, you should entertain the other person with lovely and kind eye contact. If you look down, sideways, or elsewhere during a conversation, he or she doesn’t taste the conversation.
Moreover, when you respond to a conversation with an uneasy look, he or she doesn’t want to continue the conversation.
Your gaze, eye contact or physical language during conversation is really important to have a good conversation.
While feeding the baby with artificial nutrients with a milk bottle, if parents do not hug him, do not give physical contact love and do not give with eye contact, if no physical language or words, and don’t talk to their babies, there is no love.