Day 4 Task

Read these carefully and answer exactly how you would have responded in these situations. It is important to verbalize the same.
 
 

1) “Why should I go to school? We have to learn all the things that are so boring and useless. What will I do with this knowledge? I will not go to college at all. So many people did well without education.”

2) “Why should I do work at home. Rajesh’s mother does not make him do any work. Still, he gets all the time to play with his mobile and TV. His parents are so nice. You are rude to me”.

For each of the situations try and put your responses into the 12 categories that are given below. Think of what might be going in the mind of your son/daughter when he/she hears these responses. 

  1. Ordering, Directing, Commanding
  2.  Warning, Admonishing, Threatening
  3.   Moralising, Preaching
  4.  Advising, Giving solutions, Suggestions
  5.  Lecturing, Teaching, Logical arguments
  6.  Judging, Criticizing, Disagreeing, Blaming
  7.  Praising, Agreeing
  8.  Name-Calling, Ridiculing, Shaming
  9.  Interpreting. Analyzing, Diagnosing
  10.  Reassuring. Sympathizing, consoling, supporting
  11.  Probing, Questioning, Interrogating
  12.  Withdrawing, Distancing, Diverting, Humoring.
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