http://www.generationnext.com.au/blog/?p=842 Australia’s Leading Experts on Children & Teenagers in one Event Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.generationnext.com.au/blog/?p=842&cpage=1#comment-763 Sue Wensor Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:13:35 +0000 http://www.gennextseminars.com/blog/?p=842#comment-763 My 11 year old son has always been a challenge. He doesn't take advice well face to face. He gets very defensive, and probably isn't listening after 2 minutes, but he does a lot of creative writing, and reading, which is why i thought of writing him a letter. He was in trouble at school and I had a lot of stuff i wanted to discuss with him, but instead decided to write him a letter. I left it in his room on Saturday morning, and on Sunday evening asked him about it. We didn't talk much, but he didn't think i had been very kind in what i had written. On Monday after school when i asked him about his day, he was very happy, and when i asked if, on reflection, he had found the letter helpful he gladly admitted that he had. We have had 2 great weeks since then, and strangely he seems more open to communication now, but i sincerely believe i got through to him because i used one of his key learning styles - the written word. My 11 year old son has always been a challenge. He doesn’t take advice well face to face. He gets very defensive, and probably isn’t listening after 2 minutes, but he does a lot of creative writing, and reading, which is why i thought of writing him a letter. He was in trouble at school and I had a lot of stuff i wanted to discuss with him, but instead decided to write him a letter. I left it in his room on Saturday morning, and on Sunday evening asked him about it. We didn’t talk much, but he didn’t think i had been very kind in what i had written. On Monday after school when i asked him about his day, he was very happy, and when i asked if, on reflection, he had found the letter helpful he gladly admitted that he had. We have had 2 great weeks since then, and strangely he seems more open to communication now, but i sincerely believe i got through to him because i used one of his key learning styles – the written word.

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