A short advisory video by Ming @ Agents of Speech explaining why children sometimes ignore parents and offering communication guidance. Ming argues that repeated commands become background noise, that children may ignore parents to stop perceived annoyance, and that parents should treat children as humans—cherishing their attention and avoiding treating them like pets—to improve responsiveness and reduce toxic dynamics.
Let's talk about why your child is ignoring you. There's loads of parents who say my kid is ignoring. He's not responding to his name. Whatever I tell him to do, he doesn't do. There's a whole list of possibilities. What do we do? The thing about getting your child's attention is that a lot of times when you say something and repeat, repeat and repeat your command or instruction, it becomes background noise. And why is that? Is because you are annoying that kid. The reason why he's doing it is because he wants you to stop annoying him. Don't annoy your child. Cherish their attention. Think about how to interact with a kid. Treat them as a human. Don't treat them them as a pet. A lot of times, some parents really do treat their children as pets. It's like an instant gratification for a lot of parents to tell them to do something. But then when you don't get it, you feel betrayed and you're like, I feed you, I give you so much stuff and you don't listen to me. Don't take that for granted because you feel like they are taking you for granted. And therefore you also take them for granted. That's pretty toxic. Relationship.
