What about loving our children?
July 9, 2009 by roseanne
Filed under Daily Inspiration, Life
“Loving our children isn’t always enough. Learning to speak their love language communicates your love in ways they’ll understand right from the start.”
— Gary Chapman
How do we express our love for our children? Often we confuse our communication styles and the “love” message can get misunderstood by our ever-independence-seeking children (and they might not know how to show they love us either).
Learning to show your love in the ways that each unique and individual child understands love will give you that ever-illusive peace in the family.
One friend of mine started understanding how to finally explain to his children that helping around the house was THE way to show him they loved him (acts of service). Now the boys do their chores with ease because they know it is a quick and easy way to say “Hey dad, I love you.” And after talking it over with his boys, dad now knows that for one boy, it’s plenty of hugging and for the other it’s verbal praise.
