Support Children and Young People to Have Positive Relationship

In conclusion effective communication with children, young people and adults is fundamental to developing relationships. It should be remembered that whilst it is important for me to communicate effectively with others it is equally important for me to listen to others to further develop the relationships I have.

Identify the positive outcomes for children and young people that practitioners should be striving to achieve

As child practitioners we must work on our skills in communicating with children because the way we communicate with them is important not only for their communication and language development, but also the development of our relationship with them. Young children often aren't able to express their thoughts and feelings in words, or express them poorly. Because of this, it's important that child practitioners can listen carefully and help children to learn how to express themselves and also provide what they need.

Listening is arguably the most important way in which to establish a respectful and professional relationship with a child or young person. By a TA listening to what a child has to say, without

Effectively supporting children with realistic responses to their questions, ideas, suggestions and concerns is essential to developing their communication skills; you should put aside your own feelings

3. Demonstrate supportive and realistic responses to children and young people’s questions, ideas, suggestions and concerns.

Effective communication, and respectful relationships are vital when talking with children, young people, and adults as they both allow accurate gathering of information and feelings and the subsequent passing along of any issues that may need to be followed up on.

When communicating with children, it is important to talk at their level while maintaining eye contact and use positive body language. We must give them time to understand and absorb what is being said to them. This will make the children feel respected and develop trust and thus they will feel confident to communicate with us. The child’s learning and development will benefit if the adults in their life can communicate effectively about them.

1. How do you know when someone is not listening to you? State two indications.

"You should listen when someone is speaking to you child. After all this will be the last conversation that you are hearing."

The manner we talk to our children becomes their inner voice, and will teach then what is right from wrong, and we should protect our children”

“When a woman tries to improve a man, he feels she is trying to fix him. He receives the message that he is broken. She does not realize her caring attempts to help him may humiliate him. She mistakenly thinks she is just helping him grow” (28). I can relate to this paragraph also, because when my girlfriend or my girlfriends try to help me or give me advice I become defensive.

It is important to listen and understand what people say, because it may be an

I must remember the importance of untangling my beliefs about this person’s intentions from the impact that their behaviour has on me (Stone et al., 2000). Beyond that, I understand that if I continue having these negative thoughts about the person’s intentions that it will be difficult to move away from the ‘blame frame’, into a joint contribution (Stone et al., 2000). I know that if this person feels attack they will shut down. Therefore in order to get to the true ‘what happened’ necessary to have this difficult conversation, I must be willing to see my own contribution to the problem. As mentioned in the book, in some situations you may not have done anything ‘wrong’ but have still contributed (Stone et al., 2000). I am aware that overtime I may have become unapproachable or cold towards this person, therefore I must express to them I understand, or want to understand, what they feel I have done to contribute to the situation at

Sometimes adults listen to kids and sometimes they don’t listen to kids. Some adults that listen are the counselors, teachers, and parents. Some adults that don’t listen are parents and teachers. Every kid wants an adult to listen to them so they feel as if they did something right. It’s better if adults do listen to kids because kids could do something that they are going to regret later on just to get an adult’s attention.