5 Ways To Teach Kids To Identify Tone Of Voice At An Early Age
Tone of voice builds independence and confidence.
What does it mean to teach your kids how to identify tone of voice?
This time of year, as parents wade back into the school routine, you may be noticing your tweens and teenagers have already missed assignments.
Similar to wading through a 1-800 customer service line, you can spend hours online trying to resolve issues.
You encourage your kids to write to their teacher and work through the systems themselves.
You even suggest they speak to a teacher to clarify an assignment or discuss missing work, but this can be fraught with complexities and even met with a wall of negativity and resistance.
“Are you ever going to post the Latin assignment?”
Yikes! Their tone is abrasive, the messaging is incoherent, it’s missing important pieces, and, sometimes, you may even end up writing most of it yourself!
What you actually want is for your kids to learn this skill in order to build independence.Â
Here are 5 ways to teach your kids how to identify tone of voice when communicating.Â