Listening to children, give up (4)
I believe the answer is:
cede
'give up' is the definition.
(I know that give up can be written as cede)
'listening to children' is the wordplay.
'listening to' shows a homophone (sound like).
'children' becomes 'seed' (I've seen this before).
'seed' sounds like 'CEDE'.
(Other definitions for cede that I've seen before include "Give up (territory)" , "Surrender, give up" , "Yield, give way" , "Give up one's rights" , "Surrender or relinquish possession" .)