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Connect With Your Kids By Speaking Their 'Love Language'
Identifying a child’s love language
- It will be helpful for finding little ways to show them extra affection in a personalized way.
- It’s also helpful to know that whatever love language they speak is also the language they are most likely to feel hurt by.
- Even if your child scores high in one or two languages, that doesn’t mean you should ditch the other languages completely.
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The concept of the 5 love languages
It refers to the idea that we all give and receive love differently. The five languages are:
- Words of affirmation
- Acts of service
- Receiving gifts
- Quality time
- Physical touch
Identifying a child’s love language
- It will be helpful for finding little ways to show them extra affection in a personalized way.
- It’s also helpful to know that whatever love language they speak is also the language they are most likely to feel hurt by.
- Even if your child scores high in one or two languages, that doesn’t mean you should ditch the other languages completely.
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The five love languages
The idea is: we all express and feel love differently, and understanding those differences can seriously help your relationships.
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The five love languages, in a nutshell
- Words of affirmation: Expressing affection through spoken affection, praise or appreciation.
- Acts of service: Actions, rather than words, are used to show and receive love.
- Receiving gifts: Gifting is symbolic of love and affection.
- Quality time: Expressing affection with undivided, undistracted attention.
- Physical touch: It can range from having sex to holding hands. With this love language, the speaker feels affection through physical touch.
Love languages for non-romantic relationships
The concept of love languages helps pretty much any relationship - it’s useful to understand what matters to people.
It all comes down to knowing what’s important to people so you can understand, empathize and work with them a little better.
We all have different life experiences; we come from different backgrounds. It makes sense that we communicate differently, too.
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Know your motivation
If you don’t have a good reason to learn a language, you are less likely to stay motivated over the long-run.
Once you’ve decided on a language, it’s crucial to commit.
Find a partner
Finding some kind of partner on your language adventure will push both of you to always try just a little bit harder and stay with it.
It’s a really great way of actually going about it. You have someone with whom you can speak, and that’s the idea behind learning a new language.
Talk to yourself
When you have no one else to speak to, there’s nothing wrong with talking to yourself in a foreign language.
This can keep new words and phrases fresh in your mind. It also helps build up your confidence for the next time you speak with someone.
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Bilinguals
According to a new study, the people that can speak two languages frequently, develop cognitive flexibility, due to their brains getting rewired.
Bilinguals can switch back and for...
Time Perception
Different cultures have different perceptions about time. The Mandarin language, for example, places time in a vertical axis, with next week becoming down week, and last week becoming up week.
These differences in language have a psycho-physical effect in bilinguals and change the way the same person experiences the passage of time, depending on which language the brain is operating in.
Flexible Brain Shifting
Studies on Bilinguals prove that language can affect our most basic senses, our time perception, visual perception, and our emotions.
The flexible brain-shifting of bilinguals also aids in their learning, multitasking abilities, and mental well-being.