How To Connect With Your Child

12 different ways to connect with your child in less than 5 minutes

By Kolawole Oluwatope

We seem to be busier with work and other distractions in our lives than ever before, which can make it challenging to remain connected with our youngsters. Kids will inevitably settle towards whatever has the most important influence in their lives. If you are doing not forge a robust reference to your children, they’re going to look to make a robust reference to something else. That other strong connection can have a nasty effect, whether it’s the poor influence of bad friends or the debilitating effects of paying an excessive amount of time with technology.

But how are you able to forge a robust reference to your children once you are busy? Fortunately, you don’t have to plan some overpriced and annoying trip to Amusement park to remain connected. Here are 12 easy ways in which are often done within an area of 5 minutes or less to point out what proportion you value your kid.

1. Read a short story to your childCreate a story time with your child, make it a daily ritual. I guess many of us still remember the NTA network program Tales by Moonlight on Sunday afternoon. Children do enjoy stories. By making this a daily ritual, you’ will trigger a love for reading and spend some quality time together every single day.

2. Offer a heart-felt hugLots of good comes from a hug, and it doesn’t even take five minutes! Hugging is a therapy is definitely a powerful way of healing. Research shows that hugging is extremely effective at healing sickness, disease, loneliness, depression, anxiety and stress.

3. Give full and undivided attention to your childMost of the time your child does not need your 24 hours but 5 minutes of full attention will go a long way in strengthening your connection.. You don’t want the child to feel less important right? Leave everything for just five minutes and listen to the child giving him undivided attention.

4. Relate their strong emotion with empathyEmpathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another’s position. When we can sit with our children through their big feelings, they get the message “I matter” or “I’m understood” and that fosters a deeper connection to us. Never shut them off!

5. Play a gamePlay is mentally and physically stimulating for your Kids and it’s the perfect way for you to bond. But play doesn’t always come naturally to all children. Play games: board games together, run around the house, do hide and seek together. Your child will never forget the memories.

6. Do dance competitionThis makes a fun way to get your child fit without them even knowing it. It keeps them active and engaged, and ensures that they are going to be getting fit and into the finest shape possible.

7. Don’t turn your house to office – unleash your sense of humorHome is different from office, so don’t be too serious. Take time to tell jokes to your child either funny or not, your child will enjoy them. Kids with a well-developed sense of humor are happier and more optimistic, have higher self-esteem, and can handle differences well. Laughter equals connection.

8. End the day with special time before bedLie beside your child or sit at the end of the bed and just spend a few minutes talking or giving a back rub. And if possible tell them a bed time stories.9. Visit their worldGet involved in something that your kid is interested in. Ask questions. When we show kids that we care about the things they care about, they feel connected

10. Do a chore together and make it funHonestly most children don’t like chores but this can be a great way to come together as a family, do the things you need to do, and also spend time together. There’s no reason chores have to be a solo activity. It has to get done anyway, so you may as well use the time wisely and play while you work!

11. Engage them in family photo albums
Looking back at old memories and cheeky baby smiles is an instant mood booster and a great way to spend quality time with your loved one.

12. Pray with your child No matter how old your children are, it’s never too late to begin praying with them. The first things we want to pray about with child is for them to know that Jesus Christ is our Lord.