Are children talking to their parents more or less these days? Why is it happening? Parent-child communication is a complicated process.

Which involves various important things like; words, behavior, non-verbal cues, and emotional signals.

However, if we consider the advent of technology and fast-paced life, the communication gap is increasing widely. Adulthood; the period of every child life where they face different challenges concerning studies, career, future goal etc. In this hard span, the child needs someone with whom they can share their thoughts and listen what they have to say. They want someone to give them a pat at the back and tell them it’s going to be alright eventually, you are doing just fine.

The closest source to talk for children is their parents. Due to communication gap and ignorance, parents find it difficult to properly connect with their children. Parents work overtime and come home exhausted and eventually they get too busy to spend quality time with children.

The reasons behind this generation gap are very much vivid. Most parents do no encourage new ideas and thoughts from children, rather impose their conventional thinking on them. Parents fail to see things from children’s standpoint, that is resulting in a wider generation gap. Unnecessary control over children makes them believe that their parents do not support their choices hence they become secretive and hesitate to share their problems. Unrealistic expectations from parents makes children feel inadequate when they are not able to meet the target. Therefore, it leads to low self-esteem and self-criticism in them.

In order to overcome this communication gap, it is vital for parents to grow connection with children by using discipline rather than punishment. Teaching through guidance rather than fear encourages children to remain open about their mistakes rather than hiding them away. Daily interaction with children is very necessary for the parents in order to connect with them physically as well as emotionally.