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Your only child!! The love of your life, your joy and your pride! Your little angel and your big girl, for better or for worse- she is going to receive all your love and attention. At times growing up as an only child is hard, she is bound to get bored playing all by herself! However, the problems children experience being an ‘only’ one can be counteracted easily.
We have penned down 7 tips that will make your parenting right and would make life fun for her!
Foster Your Child’s Freedom
Since your only little angel develops a close relationship with you, she can become too reliant on you for moral support, entertainment and homework help. However, parents too unknowingly can reinforce this dependence. Your tiny bundle of cuteness needs to learn how to occupy herself and have fun, parents need not always have to be an entertainer!
There Can Never Be Enough Play Dates
According to a study published by a famous journal founded that the ‘only’ children tend to have ‘poor social skills’ than kids with siblings. But this not at all means that your only cutie pie is destined to flounder. Exposing your angel to a bounty of social settings and providing them with a number of chances to strike frequent conversations with their peer groups from a tender age.
Promote Empathy
It goes without saying that kids with siblings are probably forced to ponder about the needs and wants of others more often than the only ones! But there are several other ways to shape your angel into one empathetic person and you can form opportunities for the awareness of other people to build.
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Pick An Activity and Sign Up Your Little One
Sign up your little one for any kind of fun activity so that she gets to interact with many kids of her age. Engage herself into some gymnastic, dance, creative-works etc. But do remember, only one activity at one time! Your cutie pie would gain some amazing friends through out the sport.
Be Fully Present With Your Angel
Turning on the television as a baby sitter isn’t always the right choice for your ‘only’ one! While this works for good sometimes, but it is not a good daily solution. Turn off your gadgets and just be with your toddler. You will find this that this will lead to the deeper conversations as they will get older and you will cherish these times together.
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Hang Out With Other Families
To make your child more interactive, hang out frequently with other families. Do Diwali parties and other festivities with friends and their families. Go with the families that take you in as their own!
Set Realistic Expectations
Since many only children are high achievers and verbally precocious at a tender age, it is sometimes difficult to know what behavior is appropriate for their age. It is hard to know when you are pushing too hard and when you are not pushing enough! By the age of 8, ‘only’ children are like lil adults! Slow down!! and be certain that your only child has a great childhood!
As per parents note or experts, that undivided attention your only little angel receives from you can be either positive or a negative force! But if you shun some common pitfalls and offer her your unconditional affection, she will no doubt thrive. So try not to get caught up in what people have to say regarding what your ‘only’ will become!! They are all varied and unique, irrespective of how many siblings they have or may not have.
Also, no study can judge your love for them!!!
