
Many people kept repeating the same thing when facing the elders, and always talked about their past experiences. They were always impatient and the communication gradually turned into a drought. Taiwanese rumor describes the elderly: "I will sigh while sitting, I can't sleep while lying, I can't talk about the past, and I forget about it." In fact, as long as I master a few principles and skills of communicating with the elders, I can naturally avoid the drought of different generations.
1. Similarly, when listening to the elderly, do not interrupt the conversation, pay attention to the elderly and pay attention to their physical language, you must give them a head or smile in time, and avoid environmental interference as much as possible to facilitate the process of transmitting messages. 2. Stay silentYou can use your eyes, tips, and facial expressions to express your respect and concern for the elderly.
3. When responding to, when communicating with the elderly, you should give appropriate speech and non-language replies, which will help the elderly to speak and let the elderly know the listener understand his feelings. Repeated quotes of the elderly can be used, in addition to guiding the elderly back to the topic of the conversation, they can also achieve the purpose of giving a response. However, when responding to the elderly, you should avoid adding any value judgment or personal opinion, and you should respect the original meaning of the elderly's words.
4. When you do not understand or have any questions about the content of the elderly, you should ask the elderly and find out the true meaning of the elderly to express. For example, sentences that can be asked are: "Do you mean …?", "What you just said is …?"5. Provide the attitude of acceptanceFirst introduce yourself, give the elderly a suitable name, and explain the purpose of the conversation. At the same time, maintain a natural and calm attitude, and a calm facial expression, indicating that you are interested and concerned about the elderly's words. Active and patient listening, and give non-language replies at any time, such as pointing, smiling or physical language.
6. Give slow and clear messagesAs much as possible, use the language familiar to the elderly to discuss, and keep only one person talking during the conversation, speak slowly and clearly, and the sentences should be short and stop between the sentences. Consider the level of knowledge of the elderly, avoid using words that are difficult for the elderly to understand, and avoid using words with similar pronunciations and long sentence patterns, or use trendy words, slang or special terms that are difficult to understand.
In fact, the elderly are very simple, just listen carefully, criticize less, be honest and patient. If you are willing to give your children all your love and concern, don’t forget that your parents are the same for you. If you care about your parents, you don’t have to "again another day", you have to act immediately if you love them.