Nine Easy Ways to Get Your Child's Attention

Listening skills are some of the least taught skills, yet are one of the top five skills businesses expect new employees to possess. Parents can help their children develop good listening skills from an early age through methods that are easy to master, yet very effective. The new book, Listening to the Mukies and Their Character Building Activities, by Robert Bohlken, Ph.D., is the tool adult's need to encourage their children in ways of good character building and effective listening skills.

(PRWEB) February 19, 2005 -- Reading and interacting with your children helps to improve their listening and communication skills. Listening, the most important skill in establishing interpersonal relationships, is one of the least taught language skills. Businesses consistently rank listening among the top five skills they expect new employees to possess. Just as good verbal skills are important in any setting, being a good listener is the other half of any effective two-way communication.

Good listening is a skill that is easy to practice on a daily basis in the home. Parents and children can use these methods to help listen better to each other:

- make good eye contact
- look interested
- don't interrupt
- provide feed-back
- be open minded
- don't monopolize the conversation
- really focus on what the person is saying
- ask insightful questions
- listen for the meaning beneath the words

Parents will appreciate the positive response they get from their children, rather than the "are you listening to me?" episodes. Or "Mom, you aren't listening to me with your eyes!" Children like to be listened to attentively.

In his book, Listening to the Mukies and Their Character Building Adventures, Dr. Robert Bohlken, Ph.D.,lets the Mukies provide the basis for an easy exchange of thoughts, feelings and ideas. These optimistic and compassionate characters show why listening and communicating with others is vital. The book gives parents and children an opportunity and purpose to talk about real life moral and ethical issues.

To get a free report titled, "Ten Techniques in Guiding Children's Behavior", send an e-mail to imagesun@asde.net and place the words "Ten Techniques" in the subject line.

Listening to the Mukies and Their Character Building Adventures is available online at www.characterbuilding.net or directly from Snaptail Press, Division of Images Unlimited Publishing, P.O. Box 305, Maryville, MO 64468. $14.95 each plus shipping (Mo residents add 7.475 % tax).

Media kits, review copies, and interviews available on request

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