60 steps to Raise a Happy Child

• Say:

1. I love you.
2. I love you, no matter what.
3. I love you, even when you are angry with me.
4. I love you, when I am angry with you.
5. I love you, even when you are far away from me. My love is always with you.
6. If I could make a choice to have any child in the world, I would still choose you.
7. I love you to the moon, and back.
8. Thank you.
9. I enjoyed playing with you today.
10. My favorite memories are days when we did something together.

• Tell:

11. Story of their birth.
12. About how tender you were with them when they were tiny.
13. Story about how you were picking their name.
14. About yourself in their age.
15. About how their grandparents met.
16. What are your favorite colors.
17. About difficult times that you had.
18. That when you hold their hand and squeeze it 3 times, its a secret code for, “I love you.”
19. About your plans for the future.
20. About what you do.

• Listen:

21. To your child in the car.
22. Yo what you child tells you about their toys, and think how important that is to them.
23. To the questions when your child needs your help.
24. For one second longer then you patience allows you.
25. The feelings that are behind the words of your child.

• Ask:

26. Why do you think this happened?
27. What do you think will happen if….?
28. How can we find out?
29. What are you thinking?
30. What is the best thing that happened to you today?
31. How do you think this tastes?

• Show:

32. Do something, instead of forbidding to do something.
33. How to whistle.
34. How to play cards.
35. How to cut food.
36. How to fold clothes.
37. How to find information.
38. Love for your significant other.
39. Taking care of yourself is very important.

• Make Time:

40. To look at construction sites.
41. To look at birds.
42. So that your child can help you cook.
43. To go hiking together.
44. To play in dirt.
45. To solve problems at your child’s pace.
46. To just sit quietly while your child plays something.

• Make them happy by:

47. Make a surprise.
48. Put chocolate into blintzes.
49. Put out food on his plate in a form of a smiley face.
50. Play with him on the floor.

• Let go:

51. Feeling of being wrong.
52. Thoughts of how it should be.
53. You need to be always right.

• Give Back:

54. Look at your child with kind eyes.
55. Smile when you child walks into the room.
56. Respond with kind when your child touches you.
57. Make contact with you child, before telling them something, so that they can really hear you.
58. Let your child deal with their anger before helping them.
59. Make bath at the end of a long day.
60. Pick the best way to always be kind to your child.

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