Understanding your children's needs is an important step in understanding how you need to communicate with them.
As your kids grow, the way he/she communicates with you changes. Here are a few challenges a parent faces while trying to communicate with his/her child and how the parent can rectify these communication problem :
6-12 age group
In this age group, kids are aware yet very curious and inquisitive. They have complete faith and trust in what their parents say and do not challenge what is spoken. A parent of 13-year-old says, "Being a parent of a kid belonging to 6 to 12 years of age is most challenging as during this time the child is still forming opinions and trusts you for everything. A child does not understand etiquette and concepts like how we need to react to different situations differently. At this stage, they also begin questioning subjects difficult to understand like God."
A psychiatrist doctor says, "In this age group, kids are forming good and bad behavioral traits through reinforcement and reactions they get from adults, particularly parents."
13-18 age group
In this age group, the child starts facing typical teenage problems. Sometimes he / she is childlike and sometimes expects to be treated as an adult. So the child is little confused during this stage. Also, attraction to opposite sex begins to occur during this age. So parents should be available as a support system.
The doctor says, "Kids also face a lot of exam and career related stress. Kids during this time are sexually mature but emotionally aren't. Though the child is more or less disciplined during these ages, the fact that they are slightly more depression-prone makes it a difficult age to handle. Also kids might take to smoking, excessive Internet or porn watching at these ages, so parents need to handle that."
Source : Times Wellness
