• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

CONSIDER THIS Radio Show with Annette Petrick

Timely perspectives on life, love, friends, family, giving back, and giving thanks

  • Home
  • About
  • Topics
  • Story Library
  • Reviews
  • Connect

Quiet Time For Little Thinkers

Quiet Time For Little Thinkers
Play

Back Story –

When my grandson was about four years old, he and his mom lived with us for a while. It was a rare and wonderful opportunity to spend time with him alone and find out what was peaking his interest and curiosity.

Click to listen or follow below to read.

Quiet Time – #495

Children are thinkers. They’re forever fascinating us with the things they think they see or hear.  They wrestle with right and wrong and how to handle situations even when they’re very young.

You serve them well by creating quiet time, when they can collect their thoughts, spend time composing questions and asking you important things. Your responsibility at that time is to give them time to think. Don’t rush them. Open the space between you so they know they have your attention and you are willing to provide your time.

Use your own means of creating quiet time; at bedtime… when you’re in the car…or in a special quiet place that you go with no TV, no smart phone, no video games. If you don’t have such a place, create it.

And if your children are fortunate enough to have grandparents in their lives, use that connection as a time for thinking and planning. The older generation may be in a better position to provide that quiet space that is so daunting to find in the busy lives of parents and their children.

It’s a golden value. Take advantage. Lessons learned at the knee of grandma or grandpa are not passé. They are as important today as they were when John Boy and his family got together. Make it happen.

Photo credit: Michael Petrick of Petrick Studios

P.S.

Quiet space can be created anywhere.  During bath time, bedtime tuck-in, pizza night.  Being aware of the need is the first step.  Focus on that, and the where and how will present themselves, even in very busy schedules.

Show #495

Filed Under: Parenting/Children, Podcast Episodes Tagged With: children, little thinkers, quiet time

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Cathie Taylor says

    February 24, 2019 at

    Thank you Annette! Our granddaughter now lives with us. She is 20 years old and loves the chatter! Her brothers are five and seven rather the seven-year-old just turned eight!! Love being around them and listening to what they say. Thank you again and God bless

    Reply
    • Annette Petrick says

      February 28, 2019 at

      God bless you all.

      Reply
  2. Karen R. Sanderson says

    December 28, 2014 at

    I love this. And I am fortunate – I am near my 9 y.o. and 7 y.o. grandsons and can see them whenver I wish. It’s true they are involved in some video games, but we also have talk time at the dinner table or talk over cards of Clue or Upwords or Scrabble. We also have early morning conversations…when I am up, at the dining room table and the first up comes down and we chat…before the others are up and the chaos starts. 🙂 I consider all this talk time very important!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe to the Podcast & Blog Post


(Your information is safe with me. I use MailChimp to send weekly emails that link to my most recent podcast episode and blog post. I never sell or share your information. You may unsubscribe at any time.)

Now Featured in Grand Magazine

A new adventure for Consider This Radio Show! We're now featured in Grand Magazine, and YOU can subscribe for free! Click here to subscribe. It's my gift to you!

Grand mag subscribe Feb 2019

NOTE: Grand Magazine subscription does not automatically subscribe you to my Sunday morning email. See below to be included in Sunday Morning Friends. 

Connect with me!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Recent Posts

  • Buy Your Time
  • Mothers’ Magic
  • Private Moments for Mothers
  • New Wardrobes
  • Life

Find Shows by Category

Active Member
Virginia Bloggers

Virginia Bloggers logo

Tale Tellers of St Augustine

Virginia Storytelling Alliance logo

Cowbird logoRead and hear Annette’s stories on Cowbird.com, a public library of human experience: stories from writers in 185 countries.

Active Member

Shenandoah County Chamber-Logo

rotary international logo

2X Paul Harris Fellow
J. Carl Coiner Award for
outstanding service
2018-2019

Recent Posts

  • Buy Your Time
  • Mothers’ Magic
  • Private Moments for Mothers
  • New Wardrobes
  • Life

Categories

  • Home
  • About
  • Topics
  • Story Library
  • Reviews
  • Connect

© 2022 Annette Petrick - Consider This Radio Show. All Rights Reserved.