Polly Berrien Berends Quotes

I want to be a mom who listens.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

She was a genius at listening.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner. "Mom,guess what ?" she squealed waving the drawing . her mother never looked up. "what"? she said ,tending to the pots. "guess what?" the child repeated ,waving the drawings. "what?" the mother said , tending to the plates. "Mom, you're not listening" "sweetie,yes I am" "Mom" the child said "you're not listening with your EYES

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.