Bonding With Your Children Is Not Always Easy
Nothing is more important to, and for, children than bonding to their parents. Some parents and children find it easy – others do not. Let’s face it, families come in all shapes, sizes, and personalities. It’s not always easy. Because time can be an issue.
The work and financial pressures of today’s world can mean it’s a real challenge to find the time, and a way, to open a door which makes it easy for children and their parent to connect. With them both on the same level, on the same page, if you like!
Sometimes, parents have to be separated from their children for a variety of reasons and keeping in touch with them is more difficult than planned.
It doesn’t make you a bad parent. It just means that you have the added challenge of bonding with your children from a distance. Or on an irregular basis.
Storytelling is a wonderful way to connect with your children.
At Stories My Nana Tells, Lesley Dewar creates stories of adventure and learning, which fully include the child.
With a unique style, she creates a world where children from 6yo – 11yo can immerse themselves in the adventure – meeting amazing or beautiful creatures, and having fun.
These are stories for parents and grandparents to share with children. To read together, ask and answer questions and share the joy of talking about new and different things that will spark the imaginations of your children.
This is a new and unique way for parents to open some new avenues of bonding with children.
What do parents say?
From the Facebook page – “Thank you Thank you Thank you Lesley. The personalised story you wrote for my son Rhivaan is absolutely awesome. He loves it and have lost count of the number of times he has read it. I love the joy you bring to kids’ lives with what you do Click here Yes – we are on Facebook.
Nanna Lesley has written two wonderful stories for my children. The stories are personalised and incorporate their favourite things. Thank you Nanna Lesley for bringing more imagination and joy into our home through your stories. Much love Margie, Jacob and Emma
Whether you are parenting at home, or from a distance, Stories My Nana Tells offers you and your child a new and unique experience.
If you are a busy executive, work on a FIFO roster or travel a great deal, a personalised story for your own child offers a great connection between parent and child, as well as a fun learning experience.
It’s easy to share stories with your child from wherever you are in the world.
Our gifting pack is a personalised story for your child, delivered to them in a magnificent full colour book, and a digital copy for you, to download to any device.
Simply choose the age category for your child, then select the story you want. Personalised stories for 6yo to 11 yo kids.
Bonding through story telling with a parent raises a child’s level of their own self-esteem, with the right stories.
We are really focussing on the theme of supporting and improving the sense of self-esteem and confidence in children. We know that teaching our children to be mentally strong is very important. Children who read are more confident and it builds their self-esteem and reduces / prevents the effects of bullying. Especially when they can read their own story of adventure.
Help increase your child’s self esteem, while they are entertained and entranced with these stories of new and exciting places, where they are IN the story. Engage their imagination and inspire them to ask questions and seek answers, because these are stories they want to hear, that they ask us for.
The adventures they will have helps build their self-esteem and confidence when facing some of the challenges of life: parents having to be absent, changing houses, overcoming fear.
bushra says
Nice post on parenting. Story telling can establish bond with children easily
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Lesley Dewar says
Thank you Bushra. Happy to share because storytelling is a great bonding experience.
Lillian says
This sounds like a wonderful thing.
I had difficulty bonding with my children due to undiagnosed PTSD & Bipolar II Disorder. I forced myself to nurse my youngest until she self-weaned at almost 3. I did it for the bonding, but it was very difficult for me to do. Then, at five, she was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder.
I wonder if any of your stories have a way to positively address mental health and cognitive disability issues? They may be hard things, but, the teasing and rejection my daughter experiences from other children who can’t recognize or understand the differences is very painful for us all. The same happens for children and adults experiencing other disabilities and mental health issues. It seems if these stories offer ways for children and their parents to learn and understand life lessons and how to get along in the world in healthy and constructive ways, incorporating the neurodiverse in them would be constructive for all.
Lesley Dewar says
Thank you Lillian. Three of our stories have worked very well with children who are autistic. In varying degrees. They were very attracted to the high visual content of the stories, because I use a lot of full colour photographs. Having their own name throughout the story, and hearing it spoken aloud forty times or more holds their attention.
If I know a child has a fixation, I will write on that topic, but make it general enough for other children to enjoy it as well. Hence, I wrote https://storiesmynanatells.com/books-and-stories/6-to-8-personalised/bella-meets-splinter/ for a girl who is fixated on cats. The tactile structure of the books seem to suit them, too. High gloss paper is good.
The stories are designed to help children enjoy new experiences, learn new things, and be prepared to accept change and the unexpected. If a child has an exciting adventure and is written up as handling it well, it helps build their self esteem and sense of worth. I try not to preach, but instil a sense of strength and wellbeing. That’s all I can do.