Communicating with your Children

How to communicate with your children in a way that will not harm the relationship

This is an article I wrote a while ago on using restorative justice techniques in communication. It is how I believe we should all be communicating with our children so I thought I would share it with you. It was such a pleasure to write this for the Canada Correctional Service and use my police background in a new way.

Fostering a Restorative Worldview through Restorative Communication

Our world is a very challenging place to live at the moment; we all appear to be in competition with each other, blaming and not taking responsibility for our behaviour. We all want a quick-fix solution to a problem without putting much effort in ourselves. Unfortunately, people just do not work that way and to move the world towards a more restorative than harmful view, we must, I believe, change the very essence of human nature – the way we communicate.

So much of our modern day communication is based upon stating what we want and getting that. There seems to be little time for connection and real purpose. In fact, the word communication now seems to mean, “Let me tell you what I think!”

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