Here are the thirteen Things Children Need To Do To Improve Their Relationship With Their Parents
- Take a Break From Technology – Nobody is asking you to not use your gadgets but remember, occasional breaks during the day would help you connect with people outside of the virtual world. Take some time off technology, and spend it with your parents.
- Pay Attention To Details – It’s a great way to show that you care. Remember dates, events and let them know that you’re paying attention to their feelings and actions alike.
- Communicate Often – Communication gap may create tensions as it lets people imagine and invent stories in their heads, do not let this happen to your parents. Talk and discuss with them often so there is a constant exchange of ideas.
- Have Dinners Together – Dinner time is a wonderful way to have a great family moment. Try and make this a habit, continue to live it together.
- Listen To Their Stories – Our generation has a major flaw, we do not listen. We want to talk and we love to be heard but we get impatient when it comes to listening to our own parents. Try and let them share their stories with you (that’ll help them open-up to you). Let them know that they can talk and that you’re ready to listen to them at any moment.
- Take Suggestions – It’s very important to make your parents a part of your decisions. Share your plans with them as that will make them feel like they are a part of all your major decisions, and that their advice matters.
- Learn To Say Thank you and Sorry – These are two magical words you already know, and they would help you at all moments. Use them more often with your parents. Thank them for the way they care, and for all their little gestures. This is sure to make them feel good and feel important in your life.
- Make Them a Part Of Your Celebrations and Success – more often our idea of celebration is not the same as that of our parents’, and so we prefer hanging out with friends. Making your parents a part of your celebrations would make them understand that they play a major role in your life and that their presence is essential to you during your life’s big celebrations.
- Let Them be – Some parents are loud, some others too quiet, everyone has characteristics that make them special and different from others. Acknowledge these differences and respect them for that is what makes them who they are.
- Ask Questions – Even though we’re not talking about a classroom here, asking questions could be a great idea even in a family set-up. We often hesitate, and sometimes even forget to ask questions. Questions reflect your interest in the person or situation, so do not shy away from asking questions to your parents wherever you have a doubt.
- Try To Understand their point-of-view – At the root of most parent-children issues is intolerance for frictions. As children, try and understand the reasoning behind your parents’ thoughts too, this will help create a healthy relationship.
- Participate in everyday jobs – In the kitchen, do not hesitate to extend a helping hand to whoever is cooking. You may as well help with the dishes, arranging the table, and other household chores. Participating in household chores is a great way to create a family boding and to show that you feel connected, and responsible.
- Be Available – Last but not the least give your time. Being available doesn’t always mean being physically present but simply being there to listen to them is enough to make your parents feel better.
Just make those small little efforts, and keep working towards the betterment of your relationship with your parents.
