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If Your Parents Didn’t Listen to You Properly…

By Mochi / June 5, 2025

The Importance of Listening to Children

Parents play a crucial role in listening to their children, allowing space for their emotions and thoughts even when it challenges the parents’ own beliefs and identities.

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Listening Quiz

Let’s test your understanding of the importance of listening to children.

Q1: Why is listening properly challenging for many parents?

Children’s words and actions can be threatening to parents’ sense of identity.

Children often refuse to speak up to their parents.

Parents lack the ability to hear their children.

Parents are too busy to listen to their children.

Parents may struggle to listen properly because what children express can challenge the parents’ established sense of self.

Q2: What may parents have rejected in themselves that could later emerge in their children?

Vulnerability, imagination, and frankness

Sexual fluidity and sadness

Mathematics skills and independence

Parental love and support

Children may exhibit qualities that parents have suppressed in themselves, such as vulnerability and imagination, which can be unsettling for parents.

Q3: What can be a consequence of parents not listening to their children?

Children becoming independent and self-reliant

A split personality in the children

Improved communication between parents and children

Children developing a strong sense of identity

When parents fail to listen, children may develop a split personality, unable to fully express emotions or thoughts due to lack of validation.

Q4: Why might parents struggle to accept their children’s vulnerabilities?

They fear their children will be too emotional.

They had to grow up quickly themselves.

They lack empathy for their children.

They prioritize their own needs over their children’s.

Parents who had to mature rapidly in their own childhood may find it challenging to accept and support their children’s vulnerabilities.

Q5: What is the impact of emotional inheritance from parents?

Children inherit physical traits from their parents.

It influences how children form their concepts of good and bad.

It determines a child’s career choice.

It has no effect on the child’s development.

Emotional inheritance from parents shapes children’s understanding of morality and influences their perceptions of right and wrong.

Vocabulary

Expand your vocabulary with terms related to parenting and emotional development.

Sympathy

Understanding and care for someone else’s suffering or emotions.
She showed great sympathy towards her friend who was going through a difficult time.

Repudiation

Rejection or denial of something, such as an idea or belief.
His repudiation of the scientific theory led to a heated debate.

Compunction

A feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad.
She felt compunction after lying to her parents about her whereabouts.

Insinuate

To suggest or hint in an indirect and unpleasant way.
The teacher insinuated that the student had cheated on the test without any evidence.

Legitimate

Conforming to the law or to rules.
His business practices were legitimate and ethical, gaining him respect in the industry.

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