This simple method relieves parents and empowers children.
Having to repeat the same instructions ten times, every day, ends up exhausting any parent, even the most patient. “Dress yourself”, “Brush your teeth”, “Come eat”, “go to bed”, “put your things”, “do your homework”... The list is often long and by force, the nerves let go, the days saw the showdown and the tensions settle in everyday life. For parents, this impression of constantly having to harvest the same things can be frustrating. They have the feeling of speaking in a vacuum, of not being heard or respected. However, it is not necessarily the children who do not listen, but rather the missing setting so that they understand what is expected of them. But then what to do to reverse this situation?
Sylvie Jenaly, who has been playing Super Nanny for ten years now, has often dealt with this kind of problem. “Regularly, the mothers tell me that they are tired of repeating the same things and that in force, they cry”, she told us on the occasion of the release of the 10ᵉ season of “Super Nanny” broadcast on April 9 on TF1. To avoid screaming all day long, the expert had a tip full of common sense, simple to set up and which is above all proven. His solution: show the example. “In general, what we see is much more speaking than what we hear. In education, we must show the example and not constantly repeat and repeat. Repeat constantly, it is not as effective as showing things”, she explains to us.
Doing it in the form of a game can also help the child to get more involved or at least take a little more pleasure. Transforming the task into a challenge, timing the action or inventing a little story around it may be enough to capture your attention and make the exercise less restrictive for him. It all depends on the age too.
