Butler County Family Resource & Youth Service Center hosts “How to Talk so Kids will Listen” event

MORGANTOWN, Ky. – The Butler County Family & Youth Service Center hosted an opportunity for parents to learn a little about how to best learn about their child’s feelings.

At the Butler County High School library, Morgantown school counselors and their district mental health therapist presented about the book “How to Listen so Kids will Talk and How to Talk so Kids will Listen”

These programs also exist to help connect families to services that can offer support and assistance in times of need, like the upcoming holiday season.

As for the book itself, it’s all about teaching parents how to not only listen to their kids’ problems, but also help them through.

“I think it’s awesome for parents to get to also hear that we’re not experts at parenting either… even though I’m a therapist, even though we’re school counselors, we’re all learning, we’re all trying to be better each day as people, as parents… and so that was kind of the take away, I hope that they took from the book, from our discussion, from our conversation,” Allison Pile, the district mental health therapist for Butler County Schools, says.

The reason Pile and the counselors, Ms. Howard & Ms. Wilson, chose this book is because as parents themselves, they wish they could wave a magic wand to get their kids to listen.

However, they hope parents learned a little something about how to make their kids feel heard.