Having A Hard Time Getting Your Children Listen To You; 5 Potential Reasons Why

Capturing the attention of your children is a problem at times for some parents. They wonder how to get their children listen to them without being argumentative.

Amy Morin, the disciple expert told Parenting.com her views why some children do not listen to their parents when they speak. First, you will hear some parents saying, "How many times did I tell you...?" or "Are you listening?" This is probably a sign that you are giving too may warnings. Morin said that is you repeat warnings all over again, your children will think that you are a bluff.

A second potential reason is that parents are giving meaningless threats. Some of these are exaggerated. One advice from Morin is to make a threat an inviting one. You may say, "Keep your toys in the cabinet so I will give you another toy," or "If you plan to argue, I will turn the car around right now." It sounds like a reward than a threat.

Thirdly, some parents struggle with their children when it comes to giving instructions. Don't be in arguments with your children always. The more you engage in power struggles the more your children would not follow instructions.

The next potential reason is you don't follow through with consequences. If you terrorize to take away privileges with your children, you must then do it. You must be determined with the consequences so that your children will learn, according to Morin.

Lastly, most parents raise their voice. According to research that is published in the May/June 2014 edition of the journal Child Development, yelling and another unkind verbal discipline has deep consequences on children. This augments behavior problems and depressive mood in adolescents.

Positive Parents shared that one way to make your children listen to you is to make your connection with your children stronger. The stronger the connection with you, the more your children will cooperate and listen to you.