Question: Does your eagerness to teach your son a lesson (like telling him why hitting is wrong) ever result in lectures that lose his attention entirely?
We’ve all been there. It’s tricky. We feel pressure to teach them a lesson, and yet when we come from this lecture-y space, they miss out on the lesson.
Then it’s just disconnected finger-wagging that your son isn’t actually learning from.
The pressure you feel to impart the lesson or wisdom causes you to talk to him in ways that actually slow his growth and the natural discovery and wisdom he gets from life unfolding.
Trust HIS process, and let that trust allow you to listen more and talk less.
Share your point of view AFTER you’ve let him share his. Not before.
Have you caught yourself trying hard to impart wisdom instead of listening to your son and the wisdom he’s learning? Do you notice yourself cutting him off less and listening more?
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