Simple Ways to Build Connection With Your Children
I often think about what I am doing to build connections with my little ones.
In the busyness of motherhood, it can be so easy to forget to make the effort.
I remind myself of how we work to connect with our babies. We smile at them, look them in the eye, talk to them, and try to get them to respond and smile back. We delight in them.
Somehow when our children get older we tend to forget and just don’t do that so much anymore. We rush through our work and don’t think of making eye contact or getting down on their level. I do anyway.
What if we tried to connect with our older ones too?
When I remember, I sometimes experiment and see if I can get my children to smile back at me. It usually works!
I welcome you to try it out. It can be a lot of fun, just like when our babies smile back at us!
More Ways to Build Connection
Smile at your children.
Get down to eye level and look at them.
Stop what you are doing and pay attention to what they are telling you.
Take time to do some thing fun with them, like playing these simple hand games.
Take the Connecting Challenge. You can sign up in that link and I will send you a simple challenge for seven days, designed to intentionally build connection simply with what you have on hand and at no extra cost. Let me know how it goes!
It’s in the small things…
Sometimes we try to connect in the big things and in finding bigger chunks of time to spend together. But most closeness happens in the little, intentional moments of our mothering days.
I encourage you to make some effort this week to connect with your child and enjoy the friendship that comes with it.
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You might also be interested in our homeschool morning routine. I share about how you can make a schedule or routine for your own family, as well as a video of our homeschooling mornings. With four children 7 and under my days are full, but I am so blessed!