(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Empathic listening is not about agreeing with the other (showing sympathy). It is about understanding what message the other is trying to convey. It is the only form of true listening.
Mirror, Mirror: Today use this statement to answer back to family members: "So, what you are saying is..."
Make a talking stick together as a family.
Words like “always” and “never” are clues to muddying the waters of communication. Tally each time you use them this month.
What you say matters (what you do matters even more) – be mindful! Listen with your heart today.
Watch Sesame Street: Mark and Murray on YOUTUBE as they teach you a lesson about having EMPATHY.
Watch The Berenstain Bears: New Neighbors on YouTube.
Listen to the book
Stand in My Shoes by Bob Soronson on YouTube.
Mirror, Mirror: Today use this statement to answer back to family members: "You seem to be feeling..."
Listen With Your Eyes: Sometimes you have to listen with your eyes as much as you listen with your ears. People say a lot with their body language and facial expressions.
Play Emotion Charades: Practice ‘listening with your eyes”. Choose an emotion to try to express just with your face and body. You can not use words.
People who choose to Seek First to Understand have EMPATHY. If you showed empathy today put an X on this box.
Have you ever had a time with your family or friends when you knew that you needed to “zip it” and just listen? Talk about that time at dinner tonight.
Today, look your family members in the eye as they talk to you. Ask them to expand on what they are talking about.
Practice using your Family Talking Stick during discussions. The person with the stick can talk, the others listen.
Funny Dinner Night: Purposefully leave out random items needed for dinner. The goal is for children to notice the needs of those at the table and to fetch those items from the kitchen to meet the needs of the rest of the family.
Are you aware that people in your family have feelings, too?
List your family members. Each day write one feeling they showed.
Talk about a time you did not understand someone else just because they were different than you.
Pretend Listening: Have your child tell you something. Pretend listen to them. Talk about how this is hurtful.
List ways you will Seek First to Understand others that are different from you.
Write in your dialogue journal.
Memorize the definition of EMPATHY.
Paying Attention:
Fill a tray with 10-15 items that children would be familiar with. Leave it out all day without bringing attention to it. At dinner ask them to name the items on the tray without looking.
‘’Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply’’
