Strengthening Parent-Child Relationship – bonding with your child using rituals
Pablee Wong, MC, RCC, RMFT, RPT-S
As parents we try to offer our best to our children and always be there for them. While our babies are small, some mothers bond with their infants through breastfeeding. Some others “wear” their babies in a sling or sing lullaby to them. Eventually, we all develop different ways to bond with our children.
We are human beings of rituals. We practice many rituals throughout a year or even within a day. Rituals are one of the many factors that distinguish a culture or religion from one another. Family rituals can help building the family bond and its identity. Further, rituals can also offer our children tradition, cultures, and values and provide stability and predictability.
Using rituals to bond with our children is almost as natural as breastfeeding. Rituals can be a very fun, loving and special time between parents and their children.
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