A Secret to Creating a Lifelong Close Relationship with your Child (Part 1)
Over the next several weeks I want to share some truths that will help you to build a strong relationship with your child. To start off this series of short articles, I want to give an illustration to help you to remember the main message behind this series. In using it, I hope you will remember the significance of it and it will help guide your choices in how you care for your children.
* A Rope of Many Strands
What is the purpose of a rope? A rope is used for connecting or binding two things together. I grew up on an island in America. Being close to water, many people had boats. To keep boats from drifting away, owners moored their boats to docks using rope. You, too, may have seen boats here in Vietnam moored to a dock or a pole.
Have you ever seen a boat that lost its connection? Boats that lose their mooring go adrift. Some are recoverable. Others end up being wrecked.
We have a saying in America: “A rope of three strands is not easily broken.” By looking at this diagram below you can easily see the reason why this is true. The more individual strings a rope has the more difficult it will be to break.
And now here is the meaning of this illustration: In a similar way, positive interactions you have with your child are like the individual strands of a rope. The more positive interactions you have with your child the stronger your relationship will become.
Tying strings starts when your child is small. What you do at this age will impact your relationship that you have with your child later on. The more you invest when your child is young the closer the relationship you will enjoy.
* Tying Strings in the Early Years
A strong relationship between you and your child is cultivated through many small positive interactions.
Each and every positive activity you do together is like attaching a string from yourself to your child and vis versa.
Blessings,
Darren Czeczuga.
Educational Consultant