Practice Active Listening Skills

Now you have the opportunity to practice Active Listening Skills that will help improve overall communication with your children. It can be very helpful to parents to be able to practice new skills outside the potentially emotionally-charged interactions with children. During a more relaxed time, parents can practice new active listening skills to become better prepared for the results of active listening during emotional exchanges. This will help parents be more calm and confident with the new skills.

To practice active listening skills, it’s best to “role-play” different parent-child situations, with a parent acting as themselves in the role-play and then also taking a turn as the child during the exercise.

Now parents have the chance to try and practice new active listening skills. Active listening role plays can be done in person or over the phone. Practice active listening and improve communication with your kids!

For more information on active listening and healthy communication, please visit Responsible Kids Network.