Seeing Eye To Eye
Oct 30, 2020
Dear Parent,
Good eye contact is key to attachment. Here are some gentle ways to see eye to eye.
- Look through a glass of water at each other.
- Stand behind your child while looking into the bathroom mirror.
- Make funny, silly--not scary or mean--faces at each other.
- Take your child out into the garden to stare down a caterpillar together.
- Paint each other's faces.
- Smile into your child's eyes.
- Make some fun eye stuff up for yourself.
Just one no-no. Try very hard never to say in anger, "Look at me, look at my eyes!" From the first moment in your home, your child has been learning to trust you. Look at your child with eyes soft like a mother or father's toward a new born child. Angry, cold eyes hurt the soul.
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
- Theophile Gautier
Love matters,
Ce
P.S. Check out the Love Matters Parenting Society membership for more support.
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