What could be more important than spending special time with your child? Here are some good reasons and also some ideas for spending time with your children:
- Schedule Special Time for Connection an excerpt from Positive Discipline by Jane Nelson
- How to make a "date night" feel special to your young child by Mary Tamborski
When Boy9 and Girl5 were with us we spent a lot of one-on-one time with them. One particular time when Josh was helping Boy9 with his homework in his room he said, "I wanna live here." Could it have been that one-on-one time of Josh focusing his full loving attention on him? They weren't even doing a "fun" activity.
Josh was gone to work most of the time I had the three little ones of Sibling Group 1, so finding individual time with them was nearly impossible. However, I could tell they felt happy and loved, especially when I simply sat in the middle of the floor and let them sit on my lap and I tickled them for just a few minutes. They looked like the happiest children in the world then.
By the way, I just found another blogger who uses positive discipline and shares her ups and downs of parenting in a very helpful way!
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