How to Deepen Your Relationship with Your Young Daughter

Loving that little girl is the happiest thing you can do.

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You have the world's greatest daughter no doubt. She's growing quickly, and one minute you feel like you know her, the next minute she's a totally different person. Spending some time with your young daughter on a regular basis, just with her alone, can give you both a ritual you look forward to each week. She won't be little forever. Grab it now and savor these times with that precious young one.

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Difficulty: Easy

How to Deepen Your Relationship with Your Young Daughter

Step1

Set aside a time every week to spend devoted entirely to your daughter. Let her pick where the two of you should go and follow her lead. It will be an adventure you both will enjoy.

Step2

During your time together, find out what's most important to your daughter right now. What's her favorite color, food, friend, animal, game, toy. How does she like to spend her time? Focusing on her will free you up to experience the world as your daughter experiences it, and the attention will make her feel loved by you.

Step3

Find a class or activity she likes doing and sign both of you up to do it together. If she's busy doing arts and crafts, for example, with you beside her, she will start talking about all kinds of things she might not otherwise share. Having an activity helps bond the two of you and gives you something to do with your hands. This allows the mind to open up and freely chatter.

Step4

After your time together, at night write a letter to your daughter about all the things you learned about her that day: how she surprised you, what she said, what you learned, what was your favorite part of the day together, why you love her. Save the letters in a special folder or box and give them to her later in her life. Or, read one when she's having a bad day. These are love letters and will cheer her up!

Tips & Warnings

A bedtime ritual together is also a way to gain closeness with a young daughter. Snuggling and reading or talking at bedtime can be a cozy and rewarding time for both parent and child.

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danielzrib said

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on 3/1/2008 Sweet ideas. My nicest memories of my childhood were activities with my Mom. She wrote me notes, too, and I've kept them all these years. I plan to do some of these things with each of my daughters, too! Check out this lovely mother/daughter book by Elisabeth Elliot: "Let Me Be A Woman".

favefive said

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on 1/19/2008 I love step # 4. I used to do this when my daughter was very young. Now that she is 13, I would like to create a journal and scrap book just devoted to her and insert letters I plan to write each day!

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