Babytalk

I am not good at talking to children - for any extended period of time, anyway. I simply have nothing to say to them, usually.

This may seem counterintuitive, as I taught elementary school just a year and a half ago. But, thinking back, I don't think I did much conversational talking to my students or any of the kids in my school. When I did talk to them, it was about school related things.

Of course, I ended up learning a lot about my students lives: their likes, dislikes, interests, family, etc. But this was over weeks and months of teaching.

I discovered my inability, or, more accurately, my disinterest in shooting the breeze with children today while I was attending my Power Lunch session. Most of the time, I just nod and say, "That's a good idea..." or something similar. And the child keeps on talking, so I guess I'm not all that important to the conversation anyway.

This is possibly connected to my disinterest in talking to people I don't know in general, but I can't be certain.