Teaching Children About Personal Space

Personal space is one of those tricky things that you need to teach your children and it is not that easy for them to grasp the concept. I have seen children that literally stand on top of another child and talk to them or they touch the other child too much and you can see the other child squirming. Everyone needs space to move, breathe and talk.

So how can you teach your children about personal space?

• Get them to stand in front of you then take a step back before they speak to you. Any closer can be uncomfortable for others.
• Explain that touching with permission is a great way to connect with their friends and explain to them the type of touching that other children would be okay with.
• If they don’t like to be touched by other people teach them ways of communicating this to the touchee that is kind and considerate.

Do you have a child who needs to learn about personal space? What did you do?

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  Chris Spradlin

  July 21st, 2010 on 4:33 am

  Naomi,

  this is great stuff! one of the things we have taught our kids to do is that if they need to speak to us, they should not interrupt. however, they should walk up next to us and place thier hand on my shoulder, and that they should patiently wait for us to speak with them. No more interruptions, it has worked well!

  Chris Spradlin