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👶Childlike Insights: Why We Should Listen More to Children

2 min readMar 10, 2025

🤝💡Learn how listening to children can offer you new perspectives and strengthen your empathy

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Childlike Insights: Why We Should Listen More to Children
Idee zur Generierung

Last night, while reading, my little niece interrupted me with a question that made me stop and think 🤔. We were reading a fairy tale about a king who was always sad, and she asked, ‘Why didn’t he just laugh?’ A simple question, but it highlighted something that we adults often forget: the effortless joy that children find so easily ✨. In that moment, I was reminded of a phrase: ‘Children understand more than we think and say more than we expect.’ 💬
That phrase has echoed in my mind ever since I first read it. As time passes, I see more and more how true it is.

We often tend to view children as incomplete versions of ourselves and underestimate their ability to grasp complex situations and gain deep insights 🧠. But what if we shifted our perspective? 🔄

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Childlike Insights: Why We Should Listen More to Children
Idee zur Kreation

I remember a moment when my niece, while we were watching a news report on pollution 🌱, suddenly asked, ‘Why do adults do that? Don’t they know it’s destroying the Earth?’ 🌍💔 Her simple question hit me like a ton of bricks. She had captured the essence…

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Blackrose
Blackrose

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