The Importance of Communication in Families
...tionships more loving, supportive and triumphal. Communication is very important to the couple and the family. APoor Communication is also associated with an increased risk of divorce and marital separation and more behavioral problems in children,@ said Rick Peterson in his book Families First- Keys to Successful Family Functioning: Communication. If a married couple has poor communication skills it not only affects the couple, it affects the rest of the family as well. If a parent or both parents have trouble communicating to each other chances are that they probably have trouble communicating to their children as well. Communicating with children is not an easy task. The main reason being children are not usually comfortable talking to adults; they are afraid that adults, or their parents, will not understand them. It is impossible to know what your child is thinking and often times parents are also afraid of talking to their children because of this and for fear of rejection, or fear that they might not understand their child. That is a very scary thought. But many teens and parents are not aware of just how important it is that they communicate or of the feeling of well-being it can give to them. Swets also states, A Nothing can compare to the joy of communicating love, of being heard and understood completely, of discovering some profound insight from another=s mind, or of transmitting your own thoughts to someone else.@ The hardest group of Achildren@ to communicate with are teenagers. A website called AWhat it Takes to Build Strong Family Relationships@ gives parents and teenagers tips and advice on how to communicate with each other. It provides readers with healthy communication styles like Atry to listen toy your teens and try not to cut them off. Let them finish what they have to say.@ I think that this is a very important one. The article goes on to say that parents should trust their teenagers and not always assume that they are lying. Little communication skills such as this one can help build a strong, healthy and loving relationship between parent and child. Communication is the key to any successful relationship and this includes the relationship between siblings. Sibling relationships are completely unpredictable to parents. Children can be close in age or years apart and still nothing can really determine if they are going to get along or not. Through healthy communication siblings have a better chance of getting along or avoiding sibling rivalry than others who do not practice good communication skills. Being able to communicate to your brother or sister is a wonderful thing. Many children do not feel comfortable talking to adults about problems they are having, often times ...