What Attaching Techniques Do You Use?
Sun, 01/25/2009 - 23:12
On the blogs, I've written a little about the emotional roller coaster of attaching to a child of trauma.
What kinds of things do you to help form strong bonds with your child or children?
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We'll spend time hand feeding with sweet things like gummy bears or red-vines.
Cooking with your kid is a great way to spend time and also take care of a chore. Food that a child makes with you is far more likely to be consumed--so if you have a fussy eater, this can help a lot.
Yesterday afternoon, we found pizza dough at Whole Foods for a few bucks. We rolled out the dough and put our own sauce, cheese, pepperoni, and so on. I baked the pizzas for 15 minutes at 350 F. Then we sat and watched a movie together while we munched on home-made pizza. It was quick, easy, and fun.
I am wanting to implement Friday night as pizza & a movie night. It's something I really enjoyed as a kid and could look forward to all week. I'm thinking it will also give some structure to the house - instead of "what are we eating tonight?" being a concern (she gets the "are we going to eat??" thought in her head), it will be a fun "What movie are we going to watch?" as she knows we'll have pizza. Besides - our little girl is a snuggler when it comes to watching movies.