This post is part of a series of 31 Day to Cultivating Heart Connections with Your Child as part of the 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes Challenge.
If you haven’t been in the habit of intentionally cultivating heart connections with your children, some of the things I’ve suggested may seem foreign to you. Some of them may be uncomfortable at first.
Or maybe you were excited at the possibilities, but now find your enthusiasm has waned. Maybe your children didn’t respond with glee and open their hearts toward you immediately. Maybe you got sidetracked by that never-ending to-do list again.
Whatever the case may be, know this: as you practice the habit of cultivating heart connections, you will get better at it.
Cultivating is not a one-time task.
Cultivating is tilling the soil until it becomes soft and supple. (How are you treating your child’s heart?)
Cultivating is pruning to increase fruit. (Does something need pruned from your schedule to create more time to cultivate heart connections?)
Cultivating is weeding out what threatens to choke. (Are you holding onto any attitudes in your own heart that might choke the connections with your child?)
Cultivating is watering the good. (Are you offering encouragement and expressing gratitude for the good you see?)
Cultivating heart connections means tending to our children’s hearts day in and day out; and when we practice cultivating on such a regular and on-going basis, we are bound to get better.
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