How to stay reconnected with your kids

How to stay reconnected with your kids is becoming a hot topic with the increase of technology.

It’s more important than ever to keep those connections with your child as they go through school and beyond. My focus at Lunchbox World is around food. How to connect with your kids, how to connect your kids with food and then each other.

How to stay connected with your kids

I used to see kids waiting at the bus stop for the school bus, all chatting with their friends as they waited for the bus. Communicating, laughing, living in the moment. Gradually over the years this has changed. The conversations became less and less. The laughter not so much.

Now all I see are the kids, all standing alone, staring into their phones, almost as if they are searching for all life’s questions in their phone… Not communicating, not connecting with those around them, not even noticing the sunshine or nature around them. Not being present in the moment… Not connecting with planet earth.

Is it just me or have you noticed this too?

Reconnecting with your kids is a topic close to my heart. With 3 kids that are a lot older now, it is so important for parents to stay connected. To keep that communication going with their kids. Particularly as technology is increasing at such an accelerated pace and this belief that the phone will give you, provide you with everything you need. On one level we are more connected than ever before, but on another we are totally isolated…

I want to help slow this down and help you, the parent stay connected with your kids…

I just shared my top tips to stay connected or how to reconnect with your kids on the Lunchbox World youtube channel. I’ve popped the video below so you can take a look.

I share my top 3 tips. The most burning ones that I believe will help set things up from a young age, when the kids first head off to school with their lunch box. So these rituals become habits and the kids know they have the support and guidance from their parents. So that you constantly feel connected with your kids and you feel you have that communication flow, that dialogue with your kids. Equally, the kids feel they have that support structure, and everything they need to learn and grow and to learn how to express themselves, when something is bothering the.

If this all starts at a young age, then these habits are engrained to such an extent, that when you get to those tricky ages, for me it was aged 8-9 for the girl and then a little older for the boys, you have that strong connection. The kids then willingly come to you and talk to you and share their worries.

I have loads more tips to share, but believe it is really important to start as young as possible and create those connections with your kids, so as they go through the school and into secondary school, and your time with them lessons in the quantity but needs to increase in the quality time you spend together.

So a quick recap:

1 shoulder to shoulder conversations

– whether this is in the car or out for a walk – mine always open up more when they get a chance to talk to me shoulder to shoulder. No confrontation. No face to face. Just side to side and therefore somehow more on an equal level

2 becoming a good listener

is a skill I would encourage every parent to master. The ability to listen, show your support. As they get older they do not want your opinions, your solutions, they just want you to hear, to listen, to be there for them.

3 connecting round the table at meal times

– try not to have the TV on, or mobiles at the table. Try and eat together, whenever possible, as a family.

Let me know in the comments below, which resonates the most with you.

If you are wanting more tips for fussy eaters then check out the tips and hints section.

Thanks for stopping by.

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the Lunch box lady x