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5 Small Things You Can Do That Mean A Lot to Your Kids

A guide to building up small moments of trust and love with your little ones

Katie E. Lawrence
7 min readMay 26, 2024
Photo by Josh Willink on Pexels

Am I doing a good job?

Parents worry about this all of the time, and with good reason. Parenting is hard, vast, unspecified, and tied to so much pressure to raise a child well.

“We’re all imperfect parents, and that’s perfectly okay. Tiny humans need connection, not perfection.” — L.R. Knost

Many people conceptualize parenting as an identity or a role, when it reality, it’s a verb — a daily choice to make small actions, over time, all in the effort of guiding a child into who they can be in this world.

It’s a noble pursuit and effort and can be guided with a few broad steps that all parents should take to lead their kids well into personhood.

#1: Respond to them

Maybe this seems simple, but it’s such an easy thing to do that we all need a reminder to do for the little ones in our lives.

From birth to adulthood, this, I would say, is the number one behavior that a parent can implement to establish trust and connection with their child. Whether it’s a baby making…

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Katie E. Lawrence
Katie E. Lawrence

Written by Katie E. Lawrence

B.S. in Family Science, Research Assistant for the Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education, Family Life Educator, and amateur yapper. (:

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