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The Family Teams Podcast

Ep. 257 | How Do You Train Kids to Engage in Adult Conversations?

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Religion & Spirituality, Kids & Family, Christianity, Parenting

4.9729 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy and Jeff discuss training kids to engage in conversation.

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0:00.0

And we've had some just really incredible conversations that really stemmed from the kids just asking great questions.

0:11.3

What's up guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So one of the things that we were asked in our Facebook group was how do you train kids to engage in adult conversation?

0:20.2

Any practical tips, any ideas. And it is really

0:23.5

important, you guys, if you want your kids to be educated, more apprentice style, and a lot of

0:28.8

people are now returning to a lot more of that kind of education during this time, you want

0:35.1

them to be around you, you want them to be learning things.

0:39.3

They need to be kind of, they need to be equipped for how to engage with their parents, with other adults.

0:46.6

We spend so much time training kids in same age groups that a lot of times the only, the only skills they're really developing is the skill to

0:56.1

relate to their direct peers. And we tend to call that socialization. But one of the, it's actually

1:02.3

for a lot of kids, a lack of socialization, because they really don't know how to engage somebody

1:08.2

who's 20 years older or five years younger very well. And so I want to give

1:13.7

this dad some practical tips. So one of the things you can do is do some pregame talks. So if

1:19.7

you're about to enter into a place where you think that they could learn a lot from someone,

1:25.6

you can say, hey, make sure that you're listening,

1:27.9

that you're asking questions. You can kind of train that, them, is there alongside of you? Do you

1:33.0

have any questions you want to ask me? What do you think of this? You know, engage in kind of an

1:36.3

apprentice, apprenticeship style kind of moment. If you're going out to do something that they

1:42.5

may learn from, so that's something that you

1:44.8

that you can you can figure out how to do. It's also important to when you do have people over,

1:51.3

I know that's not happening a lot at the moment. But one of the things that we would do when we

1:55.6

would be hosting dinners, like especially our Shabbat dinner, is that I'll pause if we

1:59.5

have a guest and say, hey, kids,

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