Increase Communication with Your Child

Here are several suggestions to build a stronger, healthier relationship with your child that involve no money and little planning.

• Read Together
• Take a walk together (bring the dog along and /or collect objects along the way…interesting rocks, leaves, etc.)
• Make dinner as a family
• Play a board game, build a puzzle
• Visit the local library
• Go to the park, throw a ball or Frisbee
• Play a math game(Yahtzee, or use dice to practice adding, subtracting or multiplying)
• Make puppets out of paper bags or odds socks…put on a play
• Have a music night…take turns listening to (or singing) each person’s favorite songs
• Brush/fix each others hair
• Eat dinner together (Turn Off the TV)
• Dance
• Fold the laundry together and talk
• Set the dinner table together
• Have each person name High/Low during dinner (best thing that happened that day/worst thing that happened that day)
• Make up a story as a family (each persons gets to say one sentence)
• Create art together (visit www.crayola.com for ideas)
• Hide an object in the house…give each other clues to find them
• Make up a story as a family…one person starts it off, each person adds a line