One of the critical success factors for weaning success is ensuring the emotional well being and stability of your child while weaning. For many, breastfeeding establishes a close maternal-kid bond. Weaning reduces the amount of time a mother and child spend together. Because of this, it is important that you as a mom incorporate additional activities into your routine in order to promote bonding and affection.
Below is a list of 50 activities you can do with your kid to help increase the maternal-kid bond during the weaning process.
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1. Read to your child as much as possible during the day. Allow him or her to sit in your lap.
2. Hug your child randomly during the day, and say how much you love him or her.
3. Rock your child for a few minutes before naps or before bed, and remind him or her of your love.
4. Play with your child's hair and hold hands while sitting together at various times during the day.
5. Have your child help you with tasks around the house. For example, have him or her help you pick up toys and throw trash in the wastebasket.
6. Go for strolls together and talk about the sites you two see while walking.
7. Help your child clean his or her room.
8. "Camp out" with your child in the living room. Set up two chairs and throw a blanket over the top. Watch a movie together and spend some time talking about your day.
9. Tell a story to your child in a unique way. Consider using puppets. Spend part of your day making puppets together, then tell a story about how important your son or daughter is. If your child is old enough, have him or her make up a story just for you.
10. Make a collage with your child. Take some time to tear out fun pictures of anything-fruits, animals, children and moms-and glue them together on a big poster.
11. Work on an age-appropriate puzzle together. Have your child come with you to pick out the puzzle. Allow this to be an activity that only the two of you are allowed to participate in. When you are finished, you can mount the puzzle in a frame and hang it in your child's room to remind him or her of your accomplishment.
12. Finger-paint with your child.
13. Buy sidewalk chalk and draw pictures in the driveway.
14. Spend extra time together playing in the bathtub.
15. Take your child swimming during the day. Consider taking a swimming class together.
16. Play make-believe. Pretend that you are at the beach or in a strange new forest. Send your child on a scavenger hunt.
17. Color with your child. Take turns drawing and coloring outside of the lines instead of inside.
18. Play peek-a-boo.
19. Collect rocks during a walk together and store them in a jar. Find a new and unique rock each time you go out on a walk.
20. Build a fort out of sofa cushions and pillows in your living room.
21. Go to the park and play with other moms and kids for the day.
22. Make some home-made play-dough together. There is even a kind you can eat! Then spend some time creating funny shapes and figures.
23. Play hide and seek.
24. Set up a sprinkler in the backyard on a hot day and pretend the two of you are at the beach. Run through the sprinkler.
25. Dance and sing to oldies.
26. Play dress-up.
27. Have your child help you prepare breakfast or dinner.
28. Make a car for your child out of a large box and pretend that you are going for a long drive.
29. Fill water balloons and store them in a bucket. Find a high location and do target practice.
30. Bake and decorate a cake together.
31. Make cookies and have your child help you decorate them.
32. Buy some happy face and smiley stickers and place one on your kid several times a day.
33. Make home-made ice cream.
34. Make paper airplanes and fly them around the house.
35. Make a piñata and fill it with fun toys that are lying around the house.
36. Offer piggyback rides to your child.
37. Sing into a karaoke machine to your child, and then have him or her sing to you.
38. Pick flowers or plant flowers together.
39. Garden.
40. Spend some time in the outdoors every day.
41. Pack a picnic basket and tent. Set up the tent in your backyard and have a picnic lunch with your child. Let your little one take a nap in the tent with you in the backyard.
42. Consider taking a nap with your child, or simply enjoy some quiet time in bed.
43. Decorate the dining room chairs with toilet paper. Attach balloons to the chairs and have a special dinner.
44. Decorate a special chair for your child to use at mealtimes.
45. Make funny faces in the mirror. Paint your kid's face and have him or her paint yours. Take pictures.
46. Play shadow puppets with a flashlight on a wall.
47. Ask some friends to bring their kids over and schedule a play date with your child.
48. Make smiley face pancakes, grilled cheese or pizza together.
49. Splash through puddles and mud together after a big rainstorm. Make a big mess out of yourselves, then come indoors, clean up and sip hot cocoa or chocolate milk.
50. Make up a special game or write a story.
There are literally hundreds of things the two of you can do to bond together. Any activity that encourages creativity and lets you spend time together will help ease your little one through the weaning process. Most children will get distracted and so excited about playing with mom that they'll easily forgo a feeding or two during the day.
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