Top 5 Ways To Strengthen Your Relationship With Your Child

"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth." -Virginia Satir

Every human being in this earth crave for those close moments with their kids that make the relationship more strong. Closeness is as necessary to parents as it is to kids. Every relationship is sweet when it is strong, therefore, we should always receive as much as we give.

Parents normally have trouble in coordinating with children, and you must have heard many times that kids don’t listen to their parents. The only solution to these problems is connection. Strong connection between parents and children develop a sense of cooperation and love between them and the end result to this is children starts following parents rules and love to cooperate.

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There are many days when parents only meet children’s most basic needs : Bath them, feed them, hug them and get them sleep. But children need more time, more concern and more love from parents. Therefore, to enhance the spark in your relationship, you should spend more time with your kids. In today’s era, parents are busy working to make their kids future bright and do the most toughest job parenting in spare time. Just remember one most vital thing, to keep a strong bond with your kids, you need to build daily habits of connection and we are here to high light those habits just for you.

Target daily connection

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Hug is the most easiest and affectionate way to stay connected with your baby. Try to hug him/her first in the morning, at the time of good bye, when you meet at bed time and few hugs in between. If you are blessed with teen or tween snub your advances when he/she enters the home, you have to realize that with younger kids you have to go easy in to the connection. Let him/her settle down, give something to drink and then chat with him/her, you will find that your kid is sharing his/her whole day journey with you. Maintain that pace.

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Connect before transition

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Kids find it very hard to transit from one thing to another. If you play a bit with your child to get her giggle then you are making him/her feel comfortable and ready to manage himself/herself through the transition. For instance, when kids have to go to school in the morning , they find it very hard to get up and start functioning, therefore at that time if you start with a 5 minute snuggle at his/her awakening time, this will make your kid morning easy and he/she will continue with brushing and dressing stuff smoothly

Play

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Making playfulness a daily habit in daily activities will make you connected with your children. It will help your child to get over his/her anxieties and will him/her more connected with you. As a parent you have to cooperate with your kid to make him/her a better person. Playing with kids will make you their friend and you will easily get connected with them. Which will make daily routine as well as development of your kids an easy process.

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When interacting with your kids - Turn off the gadgets

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If you wish that your children share their happiness, pain and daily routine with you , then you have to be more connected with them. Kids remember everything and they will be happy to see that their parents switch off their gadgets and music just to listen them. This thing is particularly important when you are traveling in car. As you have less eye-contact and it takes the pressure-off, therefore, kids feel free to open up and share easily.

Welcome emotion

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Accept the meltdowns and don’t let your anger subdue your children’s emotions. Always remember you are the only one with whom he/she can share emotions and cry out loud. Later, he/she will feel more relaxed, closer to you and cooperative. Be your kids best friend and let them bust out their feelings in front of you.

Hope these habits strengthen your relationship with your baby and let you create loads of memories to cherish in future. Get connected with your child and with us as well yo know more such tricks and tips of parenting.

Top 5 Ways To Strengthen Your Relationship With Your Child was last modified: July 21st, 2016 by Baby Couture India