Wednesday 31 October 2012

Building Effective Interpersonal Skills in Your Child

Parents today are more aware and more involved when it comes to bringing up their kids. They leave no stone unturned to give their little ones the very best of opportunities when it comes to education, sports and extra-curricular activities. They also spend a lot of time with their kids, making serious efforts towards understanding them and guiding them as they grow. There is one aspect of child rearing which still leave parents puzzled and that is, how they should help their kids to build up or improve their interpersonal skills.

In the past, the ability to interact well with others was considered a natural tendency, there were some kids who were good at it and there were others who weren’t. The parents tried their level best to mould those kids who needed to improve their interpersonal skills at their own level, and left the rest to the natural evolution that comes with maturity.

Times have changed today. We have a powerful tool like Graphotherapy on hand for the parents to use to help their kids. Graphotherapy is the science of studying handwriting samples, making an analysis of the writer’s psychology from those samples and then suggesting some modifications to the handwriting in order to iron out some prominent flaws or build on some latent positive attribute.

The basic logic is that to be able to help kids improve their interpersonal skills, the parents or even the teachers need to first understand the nature of the kid concerned and that is not an easy task. Kids are not able to introspect so much and they also do not have developed powers of expression to let others know about their thoughts and feelings.

Graphotherapy helps out by making deductions from the kid’s handwriting samples about the tendencies towards which the child is prone and in certain cases even indicate areas where the child is experiencing trouble. For example, a child may be naturally shy or have low self-esteem. A little interaction with the child herself along with her parents helps the Graphotherapist understand how to take things forward.

The Graphotherapist will suggest some changes to be brought about in the kid’s handwriting or may advise the child to practise drawing some regular motifs on paper. The parents would be asked to supervise the whole exercise to ensure that the kid does the correct thing. The parents would also be advised to encourage the kid to act in a certain way.

By doing the prescribed handwriting exercise, the kid would actually be building fresh pathways to her core consciousness, to bring about positive changes in her personality which would help her to be more positive and effective in her interactions with others. In short, it would help the kidimprove her interpersonal skills.