Today, most parents need to reconcile with the condition of living apart (due to working outside their home country) while longing for connection with their loved ones. They are synthesizing the best possible efforts and ideas to provide food, shelter, education, and love for their children.
Time will always challenge your flexibility. Wise decisions will make a difference in your lives. Your choice of job comes with great responsibilities and privileges, which sometimes distinguish you from your loved ones. To work abroad is to seek greener pastures and you bravely adapt to the new condition of the new place. Living outside of your home country is difficult to accept, and being separated from loved ones is psychologically disturbing not only for parents, but more especially for a child. However, be thankful that you are now living in the computer age and everything is just one click away for messaging and video calling, and enjoy the pleasure of chatting while doing other tasks. Outside of your home, the iPhone 3GS will close that gap. However, have you ever wondered how you can afford to spend quality time with your child to alleviate the loneliness you feel while you are away? How to build that close personal relationship between a parent and child in a remote communication is through personal experience that could improve over time.
Availability. It is important that you let your child feel your presence most of the time. It is your daily task to video call him and ask him what has happened during the day. Your child will be able to build confidence and security to express his feelings. By asking, your child may explore the willingness to think rationally. Your presence can mean so much to him that he can be proud to tell other children about it.
Display. The power of your mind puts you in control, so your child will open his awareness to things that are communicated to him. The online storytelling would be so much fun that it would allow you to share your understanding about the story that would eventually spark an open dialogue between parents and children. Let your child share his naive story too and praise his wonderful storytelling. You are helping your child communicate and share his feelings. In visualization, it helps prolong the conversation, making it more exciting for your child to create his own story from his visual perception. Hearing from you is a great role as a parent.
Make fun. Spice things up when you call your child online. A child will never be without a game plan to establish, and wants to capture every last detail of the greatest joy. If he wants to pretend to be a superhero, let him feel the excitement. If he insists on typing his name on the computer, just let him do it and praise the work done by sending him some emoticons like a star, a smiley face, or a heart. There are webcams to animate your animated video image where your kid could start a fairy talk. Be interested in making your child’s world more exciting and fun.
Visit and invite. With your webcam or mobile phone, you can take him to his place and let him see your bedroom, television, cabinet and other things, so that he also knows that he is living well. You can also show him the pictures you carry and keep all the time, and tell him how much you loved and treasured them. It is more fascinating, if you promise that you will get it and that you will make it live with you.
Say goodbye. The sad part of the conversation is the moment of goodbye. Let your child feel that he is not being separated, but only because of a routine before bed and needs to rest, a complete reading of a bedtime story would complete your child’s night and before closing the session, spread your arms, as if extending his arms. your child for a hug. Forming your hands into a heart shape is an additional way to say goodbye. Lastly, tell him that you love him and always make sure you see him again.
