When I had something worthwhile to say, I always wanted to say it to her because she was someone who listened\u2026truly listened, with her eyes, her heart, and her soul. <\/em><\/p>\nWhether your child is four-months-old, four-years-old or twenty-four-years old, it is not too late to start listening, really listening.\u00a0 All it takes is this: when your child speaks to you or asks you a question. Stop. Look and see the color of their eyes. Absorb their words. Listen. Really listen\u2026the way you like someone to listen to you.<\/p>\n
Simply by looking at your child when he or she speaks produces the feelings of love, importance, and value.<\/p>\n
Turn off your phone when you are in your child\u2019s presence and give the gift of your eyes\u2026it is undoubtly one of the greatest gifts you can give your child.<\/p>\n
Is it really asking too much?<\/p>\n
Think back on a time in your life when your words were not heard. When you wanted to see eyes but got the top of someone\u2019s head. Think about a moment when you were speaking to someone and you were dismissed by their phone. How did that make you feel? Now think about your child or your significant other. When your loved ones speak to you how do you respond? Put yourself in their shoes. Do you love them enough to listen\u2026really listen? Now press the \u201cshare\u201d button below. Give someone a gift today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday I wrote about discovering the importance of looking into my children\u2019s eyes. Many of you shared that the post brought you a new awareness you hadn\u2019t considered. I love it when that happens. As I thought about this topic a bit more, I found myself imagining how my children must feel when I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,28],"tags":[15,14,206,212,207,53,211,11],"gutentor_comment":6,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_3322-e1300726925814.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fUJF-gA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}