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Parenting a school-going child can be easy, but sometimes it could be challenging. Problems may occur from your end or your child’s end. School is probably the first place where your child meets new people other than their family. You all may not spend as much time as you used earlier when they didn’t go to school. If you feel a distance from your kid or feel like there is a change in their behavior, you need to use some ideas and tips that can help you revive your relationship with your school-age children. Or if you are a parent whose kid is starting their school life and you want to maintain a healthy relationship with them, you need not worry; you are reading the written article.
Below we have provided certain ideas and tips which can help you to keep a healthy relationship with your school-age children –
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Attention
If not you, your child may think that you are not giving them as much attention as you all don’t have enough time to spend. If you are a working parent or houseparent, don’t forget to spend time with your kid. Your kid needs your attention in school life more than ever.
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Do things together
If you don’t get enough time together, fix or schedule things that you both will do together. These activities can help in cooking, laundry, dancing, walking, jogging, etc.
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Let them take a rest
When they come back from school, don’t keep bombarding them with questions or insisting, they answer questions. If you want to know about their day, let them rest for some time, and then you can have a conversation. If you instantly ask them questions when they come back home, it may frustrate them, leading to arguments.
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Help them with tough topics
When your child goes to school, they interact with different personalities and listen to different topics. Therefore, some conversations may be confusing to them, and they would ask you questions. Even It is awkward or challenging for you to answer them try being honest with them rather than building up a fake story.
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Rules and regulations
To keep your kid connected with values and ethics, you can establish and set some positive rules such as having dinner at a set time, waking up at a set time, resolving every issue with calmness, etc.
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Make rituals
You can make some rituals you need to follow, such as Tuesday Tacos or Sunday swimming sessions, birthdays, anniversaries, and other important days that you will celebrate every year together.
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Affection
Remind your child that you love them and are there for them every day and every time.
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Detox
You can practice some type of detox together such as technology detox, digital detox, junk food detox, and whatnot. You will learn new things together and develop healthy habits as well.
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Be a friend
If your kid is new to school life, they might find it hard to make new friends. At this time, you can step up from being a parent and instead be a parent. When you be a friend to your child, they start trusting you, sharing things with you, and start confiding in you as well.
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Be yourself
Don’t try so hard to parent your child now and then. You can go with the flow and trust the process. You don’t have to be like somebody else as everybody has their parenting style.
These were some of the points which you can try in your parenting style.
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