Communication problem in family

- Despite the government introducing the five days work week system, parents and children still hardly have time for each other.
- Some parents continue to bring their work home while children will be spending the weekends on their schoolwork or with friends.
- Communication problems in family are very common within singapore especially at the stage when the child is a teenager.
- Parents believe that the child is old enough to take care of him/herself and hence they will start devoting more time on their careers.
- There is lesser communication and interaction between both sides and this leads to misunderstandings easily.
- Parents have forgotten that this is one of the most important periods of their children where they start to experience many changes and difficulties in life.
- Children start to question their parents’ love for them and soon develop a mindset that nobody needs each other.
- They feel that having their friends by their sides is enough and are not willing to turn to their parents when they are having problems and share with them.
- They begin to believe that a home is only a place for them to sleep. There is no love, no warmth and no feelings for that place they called home.
- The child may end up with the wrong company and takes the wrong route.
- Hence, parents should start doing something when they feel that it is getting harder to communicate with their children and often ended up having with arguments and quarrels and not when things are getting out of hand. This problem will not resolve by itself and will only worsen as time goes by. It requires lots of understanding and involvement from both parties to build up a good relationship. This is the period of time where their love, care and support are needed the most. They should also make an effort to ensure that the child is aware of the existence of love between them.

done by: SeokHwee