Parents Are Sharing The Subtle Ways They Make Their Kids Feel Loved
Parents are sharing the ways they “sprinkle love” on their kids – and it’s perhaps the most wholesome thing you’ll read today.
Taking to Reddit, user ContributionNarrow88 shared some of the small ways she deliberately shows love to her kids in everyday life.
These include: waving and blowing kisses to them when they’re leaving in a car (and standing there doing that “until they can’t see me anymore”), complimenting them to her partner when she knows they’re listening and telling her children what she wants them to believe about themselves.
On the latter, she explained: “I never make negative statements about who they are (‘you never listen!‘), but will often say things like ‘you’re so good at making friends’ or ‘you’re always so patient with your puzzles’. We are their authority on everything, these statements become their self-identity.”
The parent then asked fellow Redditors in r/Parenting to share how they shower their kids with love on a daily basis – and the responses are incredibly sweet.
‘I let my kids transfer their feelings to me’
“Whenever my kids are having a hard time, I tell them they can transfer their feelings to me through a hug or breathing. So I just hold them or sit next to them and I say ‘breathe your bad feelings out, I can take them’. And I ‘breathe them in’ and then ‘let them go’ when I breathe them out.
“This has been super effective as a way of calming them down and also showing them that their feelings don’t scare me – I can take it and they don’t have to do it alone.”
‘I keep his eye contact as much as I can’
“I made a pact to myself about when my two-year-old was born – to meet and keep his eye contact as much as I can. Starting when he was a newborn barely aware of what he was looking at – if he met my eyes, I’d lock in and get present with him. Even just for a short........





















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