{"id":1382,"date":"2016-03-29T14:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T12:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2016-03-29T14:25:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T12:25:53","slug":"the-power-of-open-mindedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/the-power-of-open-mindedness\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The power of open-mindedness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #998c82;\">Due to busy lifestyles, high demands, massive amounts of (digital) input and poor diets, we tend to take &#8216;short cuts&#8217; to keep things manageable. I think it&#8217;ll serve you -no matter what you do- but especially when working with big little miracles like kids (whether you&#8217;re a parent, auntie, teacher, psychologist), to try to keep an open mind despite the current circumstances, by taking these into account as well, instead of looking at<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> a child in a vacuum.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #998c82;\">Whenever problematic behaviour occurs, try to ask yourself why it may occur instead of judging\/labeling it straight away (&#8216;because there&#8217;s already too much on your plate.. which.. to be honest.. isn&#8217;t or shouldn&#8217;t become the child&#8217;s problem).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #998c82;\">Be your own devils&#8217; advocate and try to see the child in the environment it grows up in, as well as seeing what his\/her strengths are, next to the behaviour you wish to see less of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #998c82;\">Behaviour, especially when they&#8217;re still tiny, is a wonderful tool for kids to express themselves. If it&#8217;s (very) problematic, the child (and you) may need high quality support, not poor quality limited thinking, to get to the core of the situation and to a long term solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #998c82;\">Self-reflect every once in a while. What can you do differently that will impact this situation positively? Focus more on the good? Ignore more of the annoying but not necessarily &#8216;to be corrected&#8217; behaviour? Go to bed earlier?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #998c82;\">It may be somewhat confrontational but taking a closer look at yourself, often gives you a clearer picture of the child(ren) around you.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to busy lifestyles, high demands, massive amounts of (digital) input and poor diets, we tend to take &#8216;short cuts&#8217; to keep things manageable. I think it&#8217;ll serve you -no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-time-to-talk-blog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/time-to-talk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}