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Our job as a parent is to love them no matter what and even if. I’ve said this a thousand times in almost all my videos and I want to say it again. The time will come that our children will encounter things that we don’t want them to experience but is inevitable, so as parents we can prepare them and start talking to them about it. Stay tuned to learn more! 00:15 It’s risky out there! 00:37 Personal safety, alcohol and drug use. 02:24 Weekly Family Meeting. 03:35 Educate yourself a bit. 04:08 Study the situation. 05:37 Sexuality. 06:28 Respect. 07:48 Positivity. 08:47 Productivity. Watch and Enjoy! Dr. Paul Jenkins. WHAT TO WATCH NEXT. = How To Talk To Teens About Sex | Teaching Tools For Parents. https://youtu.be/BPmHGp8YDKg. Find out more about N.O.V.A. Principles here: https://novaprinciples.com. Find out more about Positive Parenting here: http://parentingpowerup.com/. For a FREE copy of Pathological Positivity (you only pay the shipping), visit this link: https://drpauljenkins.info. If you are ready to take your positive parenting to the next level, explore options for coaching and advanced services through your FREE Parenting Breakthrough call with one of our certified coaches here: https://drpauljenkins.com/breakthroughcall. LINKS & RESOURCES. = Website: https://drpauljenkins.com/. The Parenting Power-up Audio Course: http://parentingpowerup.com/. Free digital copy of Portable Positivity: https://bit.ly/2PoIDam. MUSIC. = Track: Kisma We Are [NCS Release]. Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds.. Watch: https://youtu.be/WfluodjOkOk. Licensed under Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0. = Video by Nate Woodbury. BeTheHeroStudios.com. http://YouTube.com/c/NateWoodbury. #LiveOnPurpose. #PositiveParenting. #Positivity
Do you want to practice speaking English? In this lesson you’ll watch me have a conversation with a kid. Speaking with children is good because they are easy to talk to, have good grammar, and have a lot to say. You also don’t need to feel nervous when you speak with them. I’ll teach you some easy ways to start conversations with kids. I’ll also tell you what kind of behavior kids DON’T like from adults. In this video, my young friend, Mohamed, will have a conversation with me so that you get a real example of what conversations with children are like. Speaking with children can be a great way to practice your English and learn slang! http://www.engvid.com/practice-your-english-by-speaking-with-kids/. TRANSCRIPT. Hi there. Do you kind of have a hard time speaking English? So maybe you’ve studied English in your hometown, or at a school, or online at www.engvid.com, and you think that your grammar’s pretty good, and… You’re just shy. And maybe you live in a country and you don’t have English speakers around you, and you don’t know how to practice speaking.. So, there’s one really wonderful resource-it’s not a textbook, it’s not a webpage, and it’s not on YouTube-it might be living in your house. It could be beside you, it could be next door, or it could be in the park. Do you know what this is? It’s a child, or children, and we like to say “kids”. So, I’m going to teach you how to improve your speaking without really doing too much or spending a lot of money.. This is the trick: Talk to kids. They are amazing. Kids will always want to talk to you, because they are fun, amazing guys. So, it’s really easy to talk to kids, because first of all, they choose the topic. You maybe are: “I don’t know what I’m going to say to this person”, so if you… If you see an adult, or someone who goes to your school, and think: “I don’t… What…? What am I going to talk about? I… I… I don’t… I don’t… I don’t know.” Kids just choose the topic, they just talk to you about whatever they want, so that’s cool.. Another thing about kids is if they’re learning English, if you’re in Canada or an English-speaking country, luckily enough, children are learning vocabulary and they’re learning grammar. Now, their brains are like sponges. They learn, the teacher corrects them. Their grammar is absolutely perfect, with a couple exceptions. They will learn and they will be able to correct themselves. So, their grammar and vocabulary is amazing. It might be a little bit better than mine. A little bit, not that much.. And the last thing is children know, this says: “a lot of slang”. If you look at a lot of new videos or music, kids listen to this music, and that’s where we get slang from; we get it from performers who make new words. So, kids know a lot of slang, and to you, they know new words. One of the big problems that a lot of people have when they come to an English-speaking country is that they’ve learned older words. Maybe they learned from an older person, or they have old textbooks. What happens is we don’t use those old words anymore, and when we do, the person kind of looks at you weird because that’s a really old word.. So, what you want to do is you want to find a child. Oh! Where could I find a kid? Here’s a kid now. Hah. Huh. What’s your name? Mohamed: Mohamed.. Ronnie: Oh, hi, Mohamed. Where are you from? Mohamed: Libya.. Ronnie: Wow. I’ve never been to Libya. How is it? Mohamed: It’s pretty sunny, and it’s pretty extremely hot there. Like, it’s pretty hot. Like, you can go to the beach every single day.. Ronnie: No way.. Mohamed: It is actually possible, if you want.. Ronnie: How’s the beach? Mohamed: It’s, like, I can swim there for 25 hours, and I will be tired.. Ronnie: 25 hours, that’s a lot. And what about the water? Is it clean? Mohamed: Yes.. Ronnie: It’s really clean? Mohamed: Yeah.. Ronnie: Yeah? Mohamed, if somebody talked to you and they said: “Oh, hi, how are you? How are you? How are you?” How do you feel about that? Mohamed: That’s annoying.. Ronnie: Oh, oh, okay. I’m sorry. And… And what if somebody told you what to do, like: “Hey, you, sit down. Stand up. What are you doing?” How do you feel if someone said that to you? Mohamed: That means they’re just bossy people that want attention.. Ronnie: Oh, that’s a good point, yeah. Do you like people like that? Mohamed: No.. Ronnie: No. Would you want to talk to them? Mohamed: No.. Ronnie: Okay.. Mohamed: I would like to have better friends that actually do good things.. Ronnie: Yeah, that’s a good idea. Do you know people that do good things? Mohamed: Yeah. Like, pretty much all of my friends, and mostly my mom.. Ronnie: Oh, your mom does good things? Mohamed: Yeah.. Ronnie: Aww.. Mohamed: Yeah, she does a lot of things to me.. Ronnie: Yeah? That’s awesome. Mohamed, what’s your favourite colour? Mohamed: My favourite colour is phosphoric orange.. Ronnie: Glow-in-the-dark, florescent orange? Mohamed: Yeah.
Unsure about how to speak to youngins? Chelsea from Practical Poppins has a few tips to help you out! For more from Chelsea: https://www.youtube.com/PracticalPoppins. Huge thanks to Sarah Manuel for supporting us on Patreon! Support How to Adult on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/howtoadult. Or at DFTBA Records! http://store.dftba.com/collections/how-to-adult. “How to Adult” is a “life skills” edutainment channel brought to you by Executive Producers Hank Green and John Green. Subscribe for new videos! Tumblr: http://learnhowtoadult.tumblr.com. Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/learnhowtoadult. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/learnhowtoadult
Learn English with KIDS Practice English conversation & Slang words with Kids. http://www.learnex.in/learn-english-with-kids-slang-words-conversation. Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/letstalkpodcast. Visit our Website http://www.letstalkpodcast.com. Follow us on Instagram. http://www.instagram.com/esl.learnex. Improving one’s English can actually be a very simple, fun and creative process. Now I know most of you watch online videos like you are doing right now and I would encourage you to do it. Some of you read books, the newspaper and even watch movies. And I want to say good job!!! But do you know of a rather different approach you could try to improve your English listening and speaking skills? I am not talking about taking another online course…I’ll give you a hint..I’m talking about something small and clever…oh wait actually I’m talking about “someone” who is small, clever and just awesome.. That’s right! Children or Kids. Talk to them-they are amazing people!!! Talking with children is the easiest thing to do because they say anything that comes off the top of their head. Now that’s a great conversation starter-an important part of learning to talk in English. Kids always have something to talk about. As you can see that she starts talking about her visit to the beach and uses related words like “vacation” which means holiday, “sand castles” which means castle shaped structures made in the sand for fun. Bathing suit is swimming wear. Waves are a surf like thing that moves back and fro on the beach. Talking about any topic with children can make you learn new words. Take note of what children say and try to find new words related to the same topic. I bet you can come up with many other words related to a vacation and your visit to a beach.. Children talk in “up-to date” English. That’s because they are learning new things every day. They use new slang, new words that books sometimes don’t mention. So if you want to keep up to date with your English vocabulary, talking to kids is going to do the job. She uses phrases like “blog” which is a web page you create to record anything you want and publish it for everyone to see. Adorable means cute or very lovable. Face time is another word used to have video chats with people who are away from you. Also watch the phrases she uses like “stay in touch” which means keep contact with someone, Getting along means being on good terms or feeling comfortable with someone. Hit the books means going back to studies. So kids are a great source to come in contact with modern English vocabulary.. Kids are curious by nature. So, they will ask questions. That gives you the opportunity to respond in English by using new vocabulary or vocabulary you may already know. Yes they can get you talking in no time. As you talk more, you will realize that your fright or anxiety of speaking in English will start to melt away. Here, Ananya is curious about what I do for a living. She wants to know what my job is like. She also gives her own views about “learning English”.. Please remember that not all kids will talk to you, some of them are shy. So don’t force any child to talk to you. While talking to kids, don’t baby talk and don’t try to boss them around. They will open up if you talk to them naturally as you would with an adult. She uses the term “Baby talk” which means talking like a child or using a style of speech which imitates how toddlers speak. Bossing around here means giving orders or being dominating.
https://www.kids-pages.com. Conversation in school background, during class time or break time, between students and teacher, on different topics, like favorite subjects, teacher’s commands. Great tool for beginners to learn new English words., and great for improving vocabulary.. Please subscribe if you liked the video. Thank you!
Learn how to order food and drinks in a restaurant and how to make positive or negative comments on food. Enrich your vocabulary with new English words.
Conversations to avoid with young adult kids There are some topics that parents of young adult kids are better off avoiding unless the young adult kids bring them up first. Respecting privacy and reserving judgement are two skills needed as kids grow into adulthood. Tell it like it is sometimes! Most of the time, grandparents should use the opposite approach when communicating with adult children. The best way to bridge the generation gap is to use tact and to defer to the parent’s right to make child-rearing decisions.
Here are seven guidelines for communicating with your adult childre. When your children are young, there are all kinds of resources at your fingertips to help you communicate with them. Countless magazines and Web sites are devoted, at least in part, to the art of talking to your kids how to teach them responsibility, how to help them express their feelings, how to get them to eat vegetables.
You also might spend a lot of time on the playground swapping war. When your young-adult kids have serious adult-sized problems, the kind that can derail a healthy and productive life, your heart may break, but your child’s choices don’t have to break you. Your child’s regrettable decisions do not make you a bad parent. Even good parents have children. Stop Enabling Your Addicted Adult Child Tough love is a hard, but a valuable language to learn.
Posted Nov 25, 2014. As a psychologist working with children and teens for over 30 years, I have counseled many troubled, overly dependent adult children. It is heart-wrenching to see these young adults in a. The words that follow either of those two don’t matter as the walls have gone up and the mind has shut down in your child. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..
Philippians 4:13. Although unsolicited advice and money are probably the top two issues that cause conflict with parents and their adult kids, there are a few more things to keep in mind when parenting adult children. Don’t interfere with your child’s life unless asked.
When parents and other adults become more of a “partner” and less of a “boss” during conversations, children enjoy communicating with parents and stay interacting longer. Comment and wait. When you make a comment, express what you think and see, without demanding a particular response from your child. @Chrys I don’t read this as encouraging the child to intrude on conversations that is not relevant, but more that if you are having a conversation and the child offers a opinion treat the child as you would an adult.
The nosy neighbor will be gently rebuffed, but I agree with mxyzplk that treat children as persons.
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Questions such as “Have you any children?” complicate making new acquaintances.
By the time children are four or five, they’re already suspicious of the open-ended questions parents use when they’re fishing for intel, for instance, “What did you do today?” or “How was lunch?”
If they’re talking about unfamiliar topics, this isn’t a conversation your teen or young adult should join because he or she will slow it down, making it frustrating and boring for the group.
We talk about the questions a bit, and I ask the children to think about which ones seem the most intriguing: “Which one would you most like to talk about with someone else?”
Introduce this session to the children by explaining that they will be learning some new conversation skills that will help them to better initiate conversations with each other, as well as with other children and adults.
As I got older, I developed categories of conversation and within those categories I had rules about what’s appropriate to talk about and what’s not, what interests people generally and what will turn them off from the start.
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Actually baby talk or child directed speech can help babies learn language. Might be hard as someone who doesn’t know the kid to know what level/kind of cds is appropriate though. I’ve mostly heard about cds from caregivers though, can imagine it’s not really effective if you don’t know the infant. And ofcourse for older children it’s not a good idea.
Yes alright, we can learn from a child.. I agree that the children are amazing..many lessons that can we take from them.. The most one is about “patient”
Haha I liked it You’re just saying what is happening to me, there are no one to speak with me, NO ONE. I live in Brazil and it’s difficult to find someone that know English to practice
Has anyone noticed that either Hank or Rachel are hanging in the Hang in There poster in the background and when they’re both in the episode no one is in the poster?
The whole “oh, their immune systems are so weak” hypochondria is BS and the reason why serious allergies are on the rise. Maybe HTA should pass their scripts by their colleague from Healthcare Triage Dr. Aaron.
I really like english languege and i allways talk about somethings with my self and that’s funny…. And i really want to learn english and i try to learn but i think english languge is too diffecult
It’d be awesome if you could share role plays or example conversations a nanny who’s new to the US could use to start a conversation with a child in the US (maybe between the ages of 6-13). The setting is mostly for tutoring or teaching children in small groups. Thank you!
I wish i had the chance to talk to someone younger now. Id probably say life hits you hard mate, keep on going. Some days it will feel like the entire world is against you, and some days it will feel like an achievement to just et out of bed. Whoever needs to hear it, keep going. I love you and you can do it, believe in yourself.
I’m here because i love babies and kids but idk how to take care of them (im still a teen) while most of my friends prolly think im crazy cuz they don’t like kids lmao
interesting points,if anyone else wants to discover toddlers and tantrums try Panlarko Teaching Toddlers Planner ( search on google )? Ive heard some great things about it and my m8 got cool results with it.
Thanks so much for this video! I‘m having my Au Pair interview with a lovely host family for the second time tomorrow and I‘m going to skype with their kids. They are two years old and I felt so helpless because I didn‘t know how to talk to them for the first time. Especially when it‘s over Skype. I think with this video I‘m feeling prepared! ����
Hank here is such a surprise to me.. I have watched a couple of biology tutorial videos on crash course and I never thought I would see him in such vids.. Cool☺️
Today my niece talk to me in English on phone. I somehow managed and cut the call after sometime. He is just in 4th class and and I’m in class 12.It was super awkward for me to talk in English with family members.Whole my life i only talk in regional language (not even national language) with my family.. But now the world is globalizing. Some country managed to maintain their own language like china, japan, Russia. But not my country. I don’t know I should happy about it or not.
Hello. I have put subtitle in Persian language for your video. it seems that it needs your verification to be seen. It would be great if you verify it.
At work, I needed to get the attention of a 4-year-old girl that was running around in the store, and all I could think of to say to her was, “ma’am, um ma’am, excuse me ma’am.” XD Which is a bit strange, but I felt too weird about calling her “sweetie” or something cutsie like that, cause it felt creepy and I also would not call her by that if she was an adult. Was there anything less dumb to call her?
I’m going to be interacting with kids from middle school and high school and relating to them on some level may be a different conversation. Is there a video from Chelsea on this?
That was fine but her exaggerated excitement interactions would be pretense and condescension. I hate that. Going back to her comment about not talking down to a kid, there is no reason to talk to a kid differently than anybody else. If it’s good then it’s good, if it’s bad then it’s bad. I hate pretense. Everyone, please watch my tiny nature videos. There is no talking in them. Shhh!
I honestly didn’t know that other people have this same problem of not knowing how to talk to children. I thought it just came natural to other people. Good tips.
Speaking to young kids is hard and frightening. If I’m walking somewhere and see a child coming towards me, I’ll normally turn around and quickly go the opposite way.
The problem is when we are young we want to grow fast and when we are grown we wish to be young again. We are not satisfied with what we have but want something we don’t. . Learn to accept, not to expect, Because expectation lead to disappointment And when we understand the importance of that time it’s too late…
perfect, I really like your method for teaching English and that is the most interessting way to explain the issue very simply, thank you very much,,,,,,
Thank you for this video. It helped me a lot with my nervous feelings about meeting my siblings foster children. I have always been pretty good with kids and this video reinforced for me that I already know and do the basics right while offering some more nuanced perspective.
I treat my 12-year-old brother and his friend like I do to adults. But why are they so mean? They probably don’t know any better. …………Actually I think they do. Maybe I should put my foot down like I would to a mean adult.
What I think of being young is not having information in our brain It’s like empty hard disk that can be filled with endless possibilities But when we grew up, we make our own believes, fears, choices and due to experience, we feel lot of things repetitive…
Baby talk thing is so true. I coo at babies, sure. It’s hard not to. �� But I have vivid memories of how much I hated being talked down to by adults when I was a child. My parents didn’t!
“If they want to talk about princesses, talk about princesses.” OK but what if I really don’t want to have a conversation on a topic about which I know nothing, or a topic for which I have no interest? What if my niece’s passion for Disney princesses makes me very uncomfortable? One time, I told her, “You know, you don’t have to wait for prince charming.” Somehow she took that to mean that he would never ever come. I’m very bad at this…
This is why I’ve stayed in my severely underpaid job for so long. Yesterday I built a rocketship for dinosaurs, played Mario Kart, and had a discussion about why different balls are used for different games. Working as a Play Specialist means I get to just hang out and be silly all day long.
Actually baby talk or child directed speech can help babies learn language. Might be hard as someone who doesn’t know the kid to know what level/kind of cds is appropriate though. I’ve mostly heard about cds from caregivers though, can imagine it’s not really effective if you don’t know the infant. And ofcourse for older children it’s not a good idea.
Yes alright, we can learn from a child..
I agree that the children are amazing..many lessons that can we take from them..
The most one is about “patient”
Haha I liked it
You’re just saying what is happening to me, there are no one to speak with me, NO ONE. I live in Brazil and it’s difficult to find someone that know English to practice
Hi Mohamed, My names ziad from egypt I’m eight years old, you’re handsome boy and you speak English very good, I’m proud of you
Has anyone noticed that either Hank or Rachel are hanging in the Hang in There poster in the background and when they’re both in the episode no one is in the poster?
The whole “oh, their immune systems are so weak” hypochondria is BS and the reason why serious allergies are on the rise. Maybe HTA should pass their scripts by their colleague from Healthcare Triage Dr. Aaron.
we’ve got a group on whatsapp to practice English and discuss diffrent issues the group is not for beginners only intermediate level
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I really like english languege and i allways talk about somethings with my self and that’s funny…. And i really want to learn english and i try to learn but i think english languge is too diffecult
It’d be awesome if you could share role plays or example conversations a nanny who’s new to the US could use to start a conversation with a child in the US (maybe between the ages of 6-13). The setting is mostly for tutoring or teaching children in small groups. Thank you!
I wish i had the chance to talk to someone younger now. Id probably say life hits you hard mate, keep on going. Some days it will feel like the entire world is against you, and some days it will feel like an achievement to just et out of bed. Whoever needs to hear it, keep going. I love you and you can do it, believe in yourself.
I don’t think that kids in Vietnam want to talk at all. they always hold the phone on their hands and don’t want anything interrupt:v
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I’m here because i love babies and kids but idk how to take care of them (im still a teen) while most of my friends prolly think im crazy cuz they don’t like kids lmao
interesting points,if anyone else wants to discover toddlers and tantrums try Panlarko Teaching Toddlers Planner ( search on google )? Ive heard some great things about it and my m8 got cool results with it.
Thanks so much for this video! I‘m having my Au Pair interview with a lovely host family for the second time tomorrow and I‘m going to skype with their kids. They are two years old and I felt so helpless because I didn‘t know how to talk to them for the first time. Especially when it‘s over Skype. I think with this video I‘m feeling prepared! ����
Hank here is such a surprise to me.. I have watched a couple of biology tutorial videos on crash course and I never thought I would see him in such vids.. Cool☺️
Today my niece talk to me in English on phone. I somehow managed and cut the call after sometime.
He is just in 4th class and and I’m in class 12.It was super awkward for me to talk in English with family members.Whole my life i only talk in regional language (not even national language) with my family.. But now the world is globalizing. Some country managed to maintain their own language like china, japan, Russia. But not my country. I don’t know I should happy about it or not.
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I just posted a new video about my challenge to be fluently in english in 3 months
Check this out, and help me with tips to improve my english <3
Hello. I have put subtitle in Persian language for your video. it seems that it needs your verification to be seen. It would be great if you verify it.
At work, I needed to get the attention of a 4-year-old girl that was running around in the store, and all I could think of to say to her was, “ma’am, um ma’am, excuse me ma’am.” XD Which is a bit strange, but I felt too weird about calling her “sweetie” or something cutsie like that, cause it felt creepy and I also would not call her by that if she was an adult. Was there anything less dumb to call her?
I’m going to be interacting with kids from middle school and high school and relating to them on some level may be a different conversation. Is there a video from Chelsea on this?
That was fine but her exaggerated excitement interactions would be pretense and condescension. I hate that. Going back to her comment about not talking down to a kid, there is no reason to talk to a kid differently than anybody else. If it’s good then it’s good, if it’s bad then it’s bad. I hate pretense.
Everyone, please watch my tiny nature videos. There is no talking in them. Shhh!
I honestly didn’t know that other people have this same problem of not knowing how to talk to children. I thought it just came natural to other people. Good tips.
Speaking to young kids is hard and frightening. If I’m walking somewhere and see a child coming towards me, I’ll normally turn around and quickly go the opposite way.
The problem is when we are young we want to grow fast and when we are grown we wish to be young again.
We are not satisfied with what we have but want something we don’t.
.
Learn to accept, not to expect,
Because expectation lead to disappointment
And when we understand the importance of that time it’s too late…
perfect, I really like your method for teaching English and that is the most interessting way to explain the issue very simply, thank you very much,,,,,,
Thank you for this video. It helped me a lot with my nervous feelings about meeting my siblings foster children. I have always been pretty good with kids and this video reinforced for me that I already know and do the basics right while offering some more nuanced perspective.
I treat my 12-year-old brother and his friend like I do to adults. But why are they so mean?
They probably don’t know any better.
…………Actually I think they do. Maybe I should put my foot down like I would to a mean adult.
Hey Miss Ceema you r looking fab. I have seen u 2yrs ago… on YouTube. Bug these days u r killing. Love u keep teaching us. God bless u
What I think of being young is not having information in our brain
It’s like empty hard disk that can be filled with endless possibilities
But when we grew up, we make our own believes, fears, choices and due to experience, we feel lot of things repetitive…
Baby talk thing is so true. I coo at babies, sure. It’s hard not to. �� But I have vivid memories of how much I hated being talked down to by adults when I was a child. My parents didn’t!
“If they want to talk about princesses, talk about princesses.” OK but what if I really don’t want to have a conversation on a topic about which I know nothing, or a topic for which I have no interest? What if my niece’s passion for Disney princesses makes me very uncomfortable? One time, I told her, “You know, you don’t have to wait for prince charming.” Somehow she took that to mean that he would never ever come. I’m very bad at this…
This is why I’ve stayed in my severely underpaid job for so long. Yesterday I built a rocketship for dinosaurs, played Mario Kart, and had a discussion about why different balls are used for different games.
Working as a Play Specialist means I get to just hang out and be silly all day long.