Ah what a nice post here! I love that you are always open to your kids to give them an embrace if they need it, that's very important! Our son is the same as your little man, he's always looking for an embrace. I think it's his way of reaffirming affection. We see close friends of ours and their daughter doesn't sit with them, play with them and only really occupies the same room to play. We find it sad that the dynamic is like that for them.
One of us still falls asleep with him every night and he always falls asleep snuggled up against us. Some may disagree with what we've decided but that's okay, we do what works for us and I think it's developed a much stronger bond between us all.
When the time comes for our son to leave our house, the many years in the future that it is, it will definitely be sadness in some regards, at least thinking about it now. We just hope that we prepare him enough to be confident on his own and be able to handle himself in a respectful way.
Parenting (like many things in life) has this interesting twist of both right now and in the future. It is such a wild ride to think that the time, effort, and love we show our kiddos now are molding their future versions.
My oldest is 13. I can tell that she wants more personal time, but we still desire to engage deeply in family time.
This is key. Confidence is an internal attitude. Being respectful is outward focused (focused on others). Sounds like you are on a good path.
Yeah, it's pretty wild to see what we did months ago comes out and impacts things he is doing now. We definitely try to be cognizant of that as much as possible!
Ah, teenage years. I don't look forward to that sometimes lol but in other ways I do. The hormones though, one can do without interacting with!
I like to hope we are on the right path with the little man, he has his moments but all kids do. He will randomly pull out very sweet moments though and I think those are so genuine it's great!
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