Tips For Training Your Child To Communicate With Adults

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If you have a young child, you might have realized that when they talk to adults, they only give one-word answers and never look people in the eyes, and even though you might think that this is "just a stage," this is something that will carry over into their adult life. If you want to raise children who are able to communicate effectively with adults as they get older, you need to start working on training children who can communicate effectively with adults right now!

One-word answers: One of the biggest areas where children fail to communicate well with adults is in giving one-word answers, as questions that only require one-word answers lead children to feel it is natural for them to respond in that way. You should exercise your children at home in this area, asking them questions that can be answered with a "Yes" or "No," and reminding them that they are supposed to answer these questions using sentences - even though they could be answered in only one word!

Eye contact: When children are little, adults are unlikely to notice if the children do not look them in their eyes, but as children get older, this becomes a significant hole in a child's manners; remind you child that - when they have a conversation with an adult - they should be able to tell you afterward what color eyes the adult has.

Conversation: Your first focus will be to make sure your child is speaking to adults in sentences and looking adults in the eyes, so you will not be focusing on conversation early on; but as your children become more adept in these areas, "practice" with them at home in the area of "carrying on a conversation."

It might seem like your children are "too young" for any of this to apply to them, but it is better to start early, lest you end up with children who are much too old to still be missing eye contact and answering questions with only one word!