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Tips to facilitate communication within the family

October 23rd, 2009

If dialogue is important in interpersonal relationships, it is even more communication in the family. The communication is guided by feelings and the information we transmit and understand. Communication helps us to make contact with people, to give or receive information, to express or understand what we think, to convey our feelings, comungar any thought, idea, experience, or information with others, and we join or bind by affection.

When there is communication in a family, surely we can say that there is a camaraderie, a complicity, and an atmosphere of unity and affection at home. There will be mutual respect and above all a more established values. However, creating this climate of communication in the family, it is not an easy task. We must help children with practices, ie, that parents establish mechanisms to facilitate communication.

Small tips to improve communication between parents and children :

- To give information, check that it is always a positive way.
- Obeying the rule that “everything that is said is true.”
- Empathize or put ourselves in another’s place.
- Provide consistent and not contradictory messages.
- Listen with attention and interest.
- Create an emotional environment to facilitate communication.
- Seek the advice and opinion to others.
- To express and share feelings.
- Be clear when asking for something.