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As a parent, one of your greatest goals should be to win your child’s heart! I’m excited to delve into this topic and share four simple and powerful ways to build a strong relationship and create heart ties with your child. This will help bring joy and peace in your home, while nurturing your child’s heart in a loving and heartfelt way that develops connection. I hope these ideas will be helpful as you seek to nurture your precious children’s hearts.
If you are wondering why it is so important to focus on winning the hearts of your kids, you will find the answer in my previous post, Why You Need To Win The Hearts Of Your Children, where we explored the profound importance of developing a deep connection with our littles that continues on through the teen years, and into adulthood.
Say “I love you and care about you” by listening and showing an interest in what is important to them. We are busy, and it’s easy to hurry from cleaning to cooking to laundry. If we don’t stop and intentionally give them our attention, they notice! We need to choose to stop what we’re doing, look at them, and listen.
I have found that when there is a lady at church who I feel doesn’t like me, or isn’t very friendly with me, the key is finding out what she is interested in and asking her about it.
I did this with one lady by asking her about her grandchildren. My goodness, she opened up and talked like we were suddenly the best of friends.
This works with our kids too! Listening not only makes them feel that you care, but it also is a great way to affirm them.
The crazy part just kind of happened to me somewhere after the fourth child. 🙂 After that, I had to start working on being fun.
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It’s easy to get your mind focused on all the work to do, that one child you’re concerned about, the bills, etc. As a result, you forget to laugh and have fun. No one wants to be around someone who is often irritable and stressed.
We can’t expect our children to want a relationship with us when we push them away with disapproval or anger because of our mood, or our stress.
They will start to avoid you, or try to read your mood to see if it is a good time to try to talk to you. They may even wonder if it would be better to stay away.
It’s easy to get snippy and easily frustrated if we aren’t careful. Make it a goal to try to laugh and do something fun or silly with your kids every day. Laughing and having fun together form a bond.
If you have been snippy, or angry with them, as soon as you realize it, go back and apologize. Admit it – even though we are the parents, sometimes we are wrong. It’s easy to overreact, get frustrated easily, and jump to conclusions.
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Fortunately, kids are very forgiving and willing to accept our apologies. If, however, we treat them wrong repeatedly and don’t make it right, they will harbor hurt and bitterness, which will, in turn, close their hearts to us.
You may do things a little differently with each child based on their personality. It would be much easier if each child were the same, so once you figured it out, you’d be good to go!
God, in His wisdom, made each of our children different to keep us depending on Him.
We need to daily ask God to guide us, and help do what we need to do to win and keep the hearts of our children.
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