When a Child Needs to Be Heard: How Mirroring Soothes and Solves.

Whitham, Cynthia

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ERIC Number: EJ461957

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1993

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When a Child Needs to Be Heard: How Mirroring Soothes and Solves.

Whitham, Cynthia

PTA Today, v18 n5 p8-9 Mar 1993

Explains how mirroring can help parents respond to their children's problems. Mirroring, which is also called active listening, reflecting, and empathetic listening, involves listening and responding rather than explaining, fixing, and advising. Mirroring can help parents soothe and solve troubling situations by hearing and mirroring what their children are saying. (SM)

Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Listening Skills, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Problem Solving, Social Cognition

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles

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Audience: Parents

Language: English

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