![]() What do you talk to them about? And I guess understanding, like, where is their language development at, versus where we are as adults, which we don’t understand necessarily very well. And that really inspired me to look more into this field and figure out, well, how can we help all children have really meaningful and engaging conversations?Īnd speaking as a parent, sometimes it’s challenging having conversations with children. And I saw how much this really changed their relationships, how this affected their self-esteem and also how much they flourished when they were given support. ![]() I worked with a lot of kids who were having speech difficulties or articulation problems and weren’t able to be understood by others. And I have been researching for the past several years the power of conversation to sort of build our relationships, but also to build children’s skills.Īnd I became fascinated by this when I saw how much communication and conversation impacted children in their daily lives. And I teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Medical School. I’m also a speech language pathologist, as you mentioned. I’m the mom of two kids, ages five and ten. So Rebecca, let’s start off learning a little bit about you and your background and why you’ve gotten into speech language pathology. Such an important subject that I can certainly relate to with my two young boys. We’re going to be talking to Rebecca today about conversations with children and, in particular, purposeful conversations. She’s a speech language pathologist, lecturer and author. Yeah, we’re delighted to have with us today Rebecca Roland. Rebecca, welcome to the Preschool Podcast! So, sort of bringing this up from not being so much a topic of awareness to something that we have at the forefront of our minds. The Art of Talking with Children By Rebecca RollandĪnd I’m hopeful, sort of as I’ve been talking about this book and sharing about it, that it contributes to kind of a broader project of helping educators realize the importance of conversations with kids.The number of times we go back and forth links stronger to language and social growth.Īfter the pandemic, it is even more important for children to have conversations to rebuild and reform relationships. Ask open-ended questions such as how we might do something! The power of the back-and-forth conversation is so strong. See these questions as invitations to learn!Īs adults, we tend to focus on closed-ended questions, which are important but won’t always spark deeper conversation. ![]() It is okay to be vulnerable and admit we don’t know things. Having child-driven conversations a few times a day can alter the dynamic of their relationships drastically! This requires a mindset shift to think about how you can put aside the need for information or a lesson to be taught and be open to following the journey of the child’s curiosity. Small moments of connection with children are so important and these moments accumulate.įive or ten minutes is a great start to really sit with your children and observe what they are doing, sitting in silence and commenting on what they seem to be interested in or what they are doing. We need to be compassionate with ourselves and make the time and room to have these conversations with children. All of the demands on parents and educators make it hard to do make time for meaningful conversations. ![]()
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