Play: 2 Ways to Build a Relationship with Your Child
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Dear Parents,
The parenting journey comes with lots of responsibilities, from financial to emotional. Every morning, you wake up with tasks and to-dos to take care of your family. In our new parent video, we have 2 creative ways you can connect with your child amidst the hustle and bustle of the week. It’s a different and unique way through PLAY.
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Our new parent video gives you 2 unique ways to play with your children. It will require you to be a little silly, which can sometimes feel vulnerable and uncomfortable. We invite you to step into the moment with your child and show them what it looks like to have fun. To learn about these ideas, click the link below.
https://vimeo.com/parentministry/review/516711917/4c168e85b4
As always, it’s my pleasure to partner with your family.
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VIDEO SCRIPT
Some children are used to having their parents help them with homework or drive them around. Guide them or correct them. But, as parents, we’re also called to play with our children, which is one way we can honor Ephesians 6, “Parents, do not overcorrect or provoke your children to anger.” One of the ways we can do that is to balance work and play.
So here are two simple and easy, and fun ways to play with your children. Number One, by the way, you can do either one of these on a school night. That’s right. Super easy. Number One, Handsfree Spaghetti.
If you’re willing to get just a little dirty, you can cook a pot of spaghetti and add some food coloring to make it red or green or whatever color you like to do, and then lay out saran wrap over your dining room table once the spaghetti has cooked.
If your kids like sauce, go ahead and add some sauce to it. If not, leave it plain, chop it up to make sure it’s just short enough so where they can eat it. And then when it’s warm enough, put it on the table, then invite your kids and say, “Guess what, guys? Tonight we have hands-free spaghetti, and mom and dad or guardian or grandparent, we’re going first.” And you can have so much fun when they see you’re willing to get just a little messy.
Another thing that you can do with the Handsfree Spaghetti is, that morning say, “Hey, guys, tonight I want to invite you to dinner. All you’re going to know about it is you have to wear a shirt, be willing to get dirty. Then just let the mystery build all day long. Clean up is simple. Just gather together the saran wrap and throw it away in the trash can.
Number Two is Family Band. This was one of our family’s favorite activities. You can get some pots and pans and do this after dinner after you’ve thrown the hands-free spaghetti away. And if you don’t want your kids to play with the pots and pans you have, run to the dollar store or pick up a small little pan, just like this, and get a fun spatula of some kind and then say, “Guys, tonight we’re going to do a family band.” Let them pick their favorite songs.
Let’s say they pick Frozen’s Let It Go. And then you just all begin to bang and have fun, and you can march around the house and just let them see you play. Let them see you be silly.
Now, you would think that the hardest piece would be the loud noise, or how am I going to keep this from getting crazy or out of control. But sometimes, the hardest part of playing with our kids is stepping into the vulnerability of just being silly. Because you and I both know as parents, we have a lot of “adult things” going on. We’re paying the bills, and we’re making sure things are taken care of, and we’re guiding our children.
We have so many responsibilities that sometimes we forget to play. And that is the beautiful part about having children in our lives. We have a chance to be silly, and we have a chance to be playful with them. And at the same time, it helps us from provoking our children or overcorrecting them because it gives us a chance to build connection.
So Handsfree Spaghetti and Family Band are just two ways that you can pass down your faith, because when you’re kids, who have seen over and over what you’re about, also see that you can smile and you can play, and you can get on their level, and you can be with them as they are. It’s passing down faith because you’re showing them the way Jesus feels about them and the way Jesus feels about you.